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functionaries of every degree, a strange recasting and mixture of old and new, of

Peruvian and Spanish, Inclian and Christian elements, reminiscences and ideals.

The Christianized ludian is shown performing his religious clut.ies in faithfnl

at tachment

to the Chnrch. Yonng men are dancing in masks at Christian

festivals.

Sometimes the meaning of the pictnres remains rather ob cure. A couple of

C1'iollos y criollos indios

singing love songs ancl making music perhaps only illnstrate

harmless enjoyrnent of

life . as a

norm.

Some remarks on the necessity of

promotiug horticultme in Peru are accompauied by a picture that seems to

represeut a coca-dealei·.

Sitting in a plautation is a man who takes out of a

basket some leaves to give to au olcl woman. He is saying :

cctyllctta acullic1,1,Y

pana,

" Th:is alone you must always chew, sister."

She accepts the leaves w:ith the

worcls:

apamoy tu l'a,

" Give me, brother!"

A culliouy

only means the constant

chewing of coca, which Huaman Poma considers as a vice.: Bnt the heacliug of the

picture is :

or·tolano pachacuna,

"garcleners." Perhaps the anthor wishes to suggest

that by provicling people with an abundant upply of vegetables and fnúts the Yice

of coca-chewing shall be abolished.

To expouncl his ideas about reforms Huaman Poma supposes lúmself to be

consulted in an audience by the King of Spain and to answer his .inqniries. At

the end of his book the author says that after an absence of about thirty year s

eighty years old, poor and frail, he retnmed to lús birthplace. He found his

possessions occupied by strangers, his children in poor ancl low condition.

one

of lús relations recognize him ; he is treated as an impostor by the local authorities.

Though it is winter-time, he starts again ancl travels, robbed and ill-used on the

way, to Lima, to have h.is book presented to the king. On the last page there is

left a blank for the names of the men to v1hom it was to be shown. No name has

been inscribed there.

v.re

do not know what became of the author.

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Rep•·inted f•·om the Proceedings oj tlte

X VIi."l.

International Cong•;

e.os

of A mericanists.J

Harrison, and

Sons,

Printers in Ordinm:q to liis

Ma(jest!J,

St. Martin.'s

Lane,

L ondon .