Through Five Republics On Horseback Being An Account Of Many Wanderings In South America By G. Whitfield Ray
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possessed two coats, while he was, as he said, a poor old man, and
had no coat. The barter - Page 193
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I Possessed Two Coats, While He Was, As He Said, A Poor Old Man, And Had No Coat.

The barter was concluded; I ate the potato, and he, with strange grimaces, donned a coat for the first time in his life.

Think of this for an alleged descendant of the great Atahuallpa, whose robes and jewels were priceless!

I offered to give the queen a feminine garment of white cotton if she would wear it, but this I could not prevail upon her to do; it was "ugly." As a loin-cloth, she would use it, but put it on - no! In the latter savage style the shaped garment was thereafter worn. Women have fashions all over the globe.

The few inches of clothing worn by the Caingwa women are never washed, and the only attempt at cleansing the body I saw when among them was that of a woman who filled her mouth with water and squirted it back on her hands, which she then wiped on her loin-cloth!

Prescott, writing of the Incas, says: "They loved to indulge in the luxury of their baths, replenished by streams of crystal water which were conducted through subterraneous silver channels into basins of gold."

The shapely little mouth of the queen was spoilt by the habit she had of smoking a heavy pipe made of red clay. I was struck with the weight and shape of this, for it exactly resembled those made by the old cliff-dwellers, unknown centuries ago.

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