This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ... feathers, and bound with the fillet, --still thought holy, --are now clothed completely in women's dresses, as fine as they can procure: and as the priests have much abridged the period of the solemnity, they are fain to finish their dance in the area before the church, where they are attended with as much ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ... feathers, and bound with the fillet, --still thought holy, --are now clothed completely in women's dresses, as fine as they can procure: and as the priests have much abridged the period of the solemnity, they are fain to finish their dance in the area before the church, where they are attended with as much deference as in the temple itself. After having performed this duty, the dancers, and as many as choose to accompany them, repair to the Cacique's house, where they are treated with all the food he can command, and drink till his stock of chicha is exhausted. I considered myself very fortunate in having met with these dancers, and pleased myself with the idea that they were the descendants of the Promaucians, who had resisted the Incas in their endeavours to subdue the country, and who, after bravely disputing its possession with the Spaniards, being once induced to make a league with them never deserted them. I was lucky too in the person to whom I applied for information. He is a deformed, but sprightly-looking man, who acts the double part of schoolmaster and gracioso of the village. While we sat at dinner to-day he entered to pay his compliments, and began a long extempore compliment to each of us in verse, in a manner at least as good as that of the common improvisatori of Italy. For this I paid him with a cup of wine; when he began to recite a collection of legendary and other verses, till, heated I presume by the glasses handed to him by our young men, his tales began to stray so far from decorum that we silenced the old gentleman, and sent him to get a good dinner with the peons. Mr. de Roos and I had a great wish to have gone to the Cacique of Chenigue, to see even at a distance the triennial feast; but we found it was too far to walk,
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