File:One way round South America, from manuscript, notes and letters of Delight Sweetser Prentiss illustrated from photographs (1905) (14742217966).jpg

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Title: One way round South America, from manuscript, notes and letters of Delight Sweetser Prentiss ... illustrated from photographs
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Prentiss, Delight Sweetser. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company
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tily decided to go back to the Ma-pocho for lunch. It seems that the Chinese werebrought over from their country twenty or thirtyyears ago by an envoy, under contract to workin the cane fields, and once in the country theywere reduced to a state of abject slavery, beingchained together and driven in gangs to theirwork. After a while their condition became thesubject of legislation, the abuses were done awaywith and they were freed, but they remain to-daythe very lowest stratum of society, despised by thePeruvians and living only by the most menialwork. In Pisco I saw the dragon-backed roofsand characteristic portal of the Chinese temple,and in Lima, I believe, there is a Chinese quarterlike that in San Francisco. The ubiquitous old Spanish cathedral with itsopen bell towers fronting the ubiquitous Plazawas not without interest, but we liked better theshambling market, where we found the oldcrones of the place hovering over little booths offruit which looked exceedingly tempting to our
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SELLING ALLIGATOR PEARS ON THE PACIFIC 127 sharpened appetites. There were bananas, apples,pomegranates, mangoes, alligator pears, freshdates, oranges, plums, yuccas, melons, grapes,all deliciously fresh and deliciously cheap. Wecarried away a famous lot of them, and I amenjoying the mangoes and alligator pears to myhearts content. We have seen none of these sincewe left them behind in this same latitude over inBrazil. The mango is a smooth yellow fruit likea great plum, which has a peculiar aromatic tastethat is most tempting. Its detractors say it has aflavor of turpentine, but I think there is no fruitthat surpasses it unless it is the acid-sweet mango-stine of the Orient. The skin has a strong flavorand must be carefully removed, when the goldenjuicy pulp, which clings to a large stone, makesthe finest eating of the tropics. Like the water-melon, let me whisper, it will be most thoroughlyenjoyed in a bath-tub or behind the barn door.The alligator pear or palta is a green, deadly-l

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