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Peru: a land of contrast

John Stuart Mill · en
El Dorado, 85, 234-236.

Elizabeth, Queen, 82.

Elmo, fire of Saint, 167.

Enciza, 270.

_Encomienda_ (tax), 91.

_Escandalosa_ (bush), 62.

Eten, 49.


Falb, Rudolf, 163, 301.

Fierro, Pancho, 130.

Fish-worship, 40, 41, 44, 51.
  _See_ Chimus.

Fishes’ eyes, 17.

Franciscans, 21, 105, 107-109, 139, 153.

Freebooters, 20, 82.
  _See_ El Dorado, buccaneers, pirates.


_Gallinazos_ (vultures), 21, 32, 43.

_Garuas_ (mists), 30, 105.
  _See_ desert, climate of the.

Gold and silver, 9, 27, 51, 56, 64-66, 68, 71,
       76-83, 84, 90, 152-155, 171, 182, 193, 199, 204-207.
  _See_ Incas, Spaniards, Sun, Treasure.

Golden Hynde, 81, 82.

_Granadilla_ (fruit of passion-flower), 240.

Guano, 19-20, 27, 56, 76.

Guavas, 24, 57, 61, 62, 125, 133.

_Guayabas_ (fruit), 23.

Guayaquil, 85.

Guatavitá, 234, 235.

Guenelette, 9, 244.


Hassel, Georg von, 233.

Heads, reduced, 289-290.

Heredia, José-Maria de, 9.

_Huaca cachu_ (plant of the grave), 222.

_Huacas_ (grave mounds), 290.

Huacho, salt lakes of, 32.

_Huacos_ (objects in _huacas_), 73, 126-129.

Huadca, 104.

Hualpa, 153.

_Huanacus_ (wild llama), 157.

Huancayo, 153.

Huayna Ccapac, 66, 166, 209.
  _See_ Incas.

_Huerequeque_ (bird), 22.

Huguenot hermit, 104.

Huira Capcha, 153.

Humboldt, A. von, 81, 161, 169, 184, 185, 235, 303.

Humming-birds, 57, 65, 132, 146, 160, 172, 243, 263-267, 270.


Iguana, 35, 240.

Incas, aeroplane named for, 139;
  _amautas_, 163, 215;
  analogies to other races, 301-302;
  arms of, 205;
  books about, 300-301;
  bridges of, 185;
  boundaries of, 20;
  campaigns of, 40, 49, 195-197;
  at Chanchan, 47, 49, 51;
  chinchillas valued by, 155;
  clothes of, 189, 207;
  coca, divine plant of, 181;
  conquest of, foretold, 66-67;
  contemporaries of, 37;
  court of, 199;
  description of, 70, 160;
  in desert, 39, 47;
  distinctive marks of, 189-191;
  divinity of, 188-189;
  dramas of, 136;
  empire of, 197-199;
  festivals of, 208, 210-213;
  flute of, 135;
  gold of, 7, 64-65, 76;
  human sacrifices of, 211;
  irrigation works of, 186;
  in jungle, 231-232, 285;
  last of, 214-221;
  laws of, 19, 193-194;
  llamas worshipped by, 157;
  male title, 205;
  mercury, a mystery to, 152;
  messengers of the, 192;
  myths of, 175-179;
  Nature, teacher of, 183;
  origin of, 178-179;
  Pachacamac spared by, 41, 42;
  attitude toward Pachacamac, 177;
  pageants of, 163;
  passion-flower carried by, 58;
  pleasure gardens of, 165;
  pleasure houses of, 185;
  predecessors of, 160-162;
  rainbow emblem of, 206, 298;
  roads of, 36, 40, 184-185;
  subjects of, 66, 191-193;
  Sun, god of, 34, 42, 176, 282;
  thunderbolt in palace of, 67;
  Titicaca, Island of, 170-173;
  tribute to, 192-195;
  vicuña fur worn by, 24, 156;
  worshipped by Indians, 174.
  _See_ Atahualpa, Huayna Ccapac, Manco Ccapac, Sayri Tupac, Tupac Amaru,
       Uiracocha, Yupanqui, also gold and silver, and Sun.

Inca Rocca, 231.