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Peru: a land of contrast

John Stuart Mill · en
_Palta_ (alligator-pear), 57, 122, 198.

Paraguay, 107, 237.

Parrots, 45, 185, 240-241.

Passion-flower, 50, 58, 113, 128.
  _See granadilla._

Pastasa, 237.

Patagonia, 37, 62, 265.

Paucartampu, 231.

Paul III, 95.

Paytiti, 233.

Peccaries, 248, 288.

Pedro, San, 111, 112.
  _See_ Jesuits.

Petroleum, 32.

Philae, 164.

Philip II, 24, 92, 216, 217.

Pica, 53-63.

_Picante_ (sauce), 23, 60.

Pirates, 76, 81-83.
  _See_ buccaneers, freebooters, El Dorado.

Pisco, Candelabrum of, 20-21.

Pizarro, Francisco, 69, 70, 73, 140.
  Gonzalo, 89, 236.
  Hernando, 41.

Plague, bubonic, 21.

Plata, Duque de la, 86.

Pliny, 152.

_Poncho_ (cloak), 57, 221.

Poopo, Lake of, 169.

Potosí, 78, 154.

Prescott, 302.

Prios, 287.

Puma, 45, 171, 194, 243.

_Puna_ (table-land), 3, 4, 31, 137, 146-147, 150-151, 156, 184, 227, 247.
  _See_ Andes.


_Quebradas_ (gorges), 165.

_Quena_ (flute), 131, 135, 224.

_Quichua_ (language of Indians), 134, 175, 176, 221, 301.

Quick-silver, _See_ mercury.

Quinine, _See cinchona._

_Quipus_ (system of knots), 69, 156, 160, 191, 302.

Quito, 303.


Races, _See_ Indians.

Rainbow, (_cuychi_), 159, 191, 206, 296-298;
  lunar, 60.

Raleigh, 76, 236.

Rig-Veda, 202.

Rimac, 66, 103, 104.

Rivers, buried, 4, 31, 54, 55.
  _See_ irrigation, valleys.

Rosa, Santa, 47, 102, 114-120.

Rubber, 6, 10, 238.

Ruins, 10, 35, 42, 43, 46, 51, 104, 160, 161, 162-164, 182-187, 299.
  _See_ Chanchan, Pachacamac, Sachsahuaman, Tiahuanacu.


Sachsahuaman, 179, 200-201, 208, 223.

Salcamayhua, 175.

_San Benito_, (mantle), 98.

Sayri Tupac, 214, 215.

Seals, 18, 37.

Seville, 79.

Shelley, 13.

Shore, _See_ coast.

Silver and gold, _See_ gold and silver, mines.

Sloth, 263, 273, 280-282.

_Soroche_ (mountain-sickness), 72, 148.

Soto, Hernando de, 69.

South Sea Islands, 164.

Southey, Robert, 85, 302, 304.

Spain, 74;
  cost to, of El Dorado, 85;
  gold, a curse to, 76-83;
  Inquisition in, 95;
  missionaries of, 8, 50;
  Peru as near unto heaven as, 9;
  vicuña garments taken to, 24, 189.
  _See_ Andalusia, Seville, viceroys.

Spaniards, Arab blood of, 7-8;
  arrival of, 68-73;
  conquerors, 24, 49, 72, 76;
  coca spoken of by, 181;
  coming foreshadowed, 66-67;
  greed of, 160;
  at Guatavitá, 235;
  Incas as treated by, 214-221;
  Inca empire destroyed by, 198;
  Indians as treated by, 89-91, 220, 221;
  in jungle, 236;
  mines of, 154, _see_ mines;
  pirates harass, 82;
  rainbow a symbol to, 298;
  treasure sought by, 79, 167, 171;
  viceroy served by, 85.
  _See_ Almagro, Candia, Carvajal, _cinchona_,
       gold and silver, Indians, Orellana,
       Philip II, Pisco, Pizarro, Plata, Soto.

Spenser, 141, 273.

Squier, E. G., 200, 299.

State Papers, Calendar of, 82, 302.

Stonehenge, 164.

Stübel, Alfons, 63, 304.

Sugar, 6, 35, 43, 131, 143.