[Contents.]
[Bibliography.]
[Index.] [List of Illustrations.]
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PERU
A LAND OF CONTRASTS

IN THE MONASTERY OF SAN FRANCISCO, LIMA.

PERU
A LAND OF CONTRASTS

BY
MILLICENT TODD
With Illustrations
from Photographs

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1918
Copyright, 1914,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
———
All rights reserved

CONTENTS

PAGE
Introduction[3]
PART I. IN THE DESERT
CHAPTER
[I.][Along Shore][15]
[II.][Desert Quality][25]
[III.][Desert Perspective][39]
[IV.][Pica, the Flower of the Sand][53]
[V.][A Clash of Contrasts][64]
[VI.][Pirates and Treasure Fleets][76]
[VII.][Backgrounds][84]
[VIII.][Lima of Two Aspects][103]
[IX.][Convents Open and Closed][110]
[X.][Anomalies of Lima][121]
PART II. IN THE MOUNTAINS
[I.][The High Regions][143]
[II.][A Megalithic City and a Sacred Lake][159]
[III.][Myths and Monuments][174]
[IV.][The Inca and His Empire][188]
[V.][Service of the Sun-God][202]
[VI.][Indians and Llamas][214]
PART III. IN THE JUNGLE
[I.][A Land of Adventure][231]
[II.][Toward the Undiscovered Country][240]
[III.][Jungle Gloom and Jungle Sheen][250]
[IV.][Animals of Darkness and Light][268]
[V.][The Jungle in Paradox][280]
[Conclusion][296]
[Bibliography][299]
[Index][305]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[In the Monastery of San Francisco, Lima][Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
[Seals of the Palominos Islands][16]
[Sachacha, a Typical Village of Peru][34]
[Pampa de los Huesos—the Field of Bones][42]
[A Characteristic Peruvian Church][58]
[Wolfenbüttel-Spanish Map, circa 1529][72]
[One of the first maps to show Pizarro’s discoveries along the Peruvian coast. A View of Paita from the Miroir Oost & West Indical, 1621][82]
[Grapes raised by the Barefoot Friars (los Descalzos), Lima][106]
[A Franciscan Friar at Home, Lima][112]
[Santa Rosa de Lima, from Het Wonder Leven van de H. Rosa, Brussel, 1668][118]
[A Glimpse of Old-Fashioned Lima][132]
[A Trestle of the Highest Railway in the World, across the Infiernillo][144]
[Alpacas on the Andean Puna][156]
[A God of Tiahuanacu][164]
[A Swinging Bridge near Jauja][174]
[An Heir of the “Makers of Ruins”][186]
[Indian Water Carrier, Sicuani][192]
[In the Market, Plaza Principal, Cuzco][200]
[A Market in Huancayo][206]
[In a Fertile Valley of the Uplands][212]
[An Indian Pastoral][218]
[Llamas at the Falls of Morococha][226]
[In the Valley of the Perené][242]
[A Sloth, from the Historiae Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae, Amsterdam, 1648][280]

INTRODUCTION

“Qui peut dire où réside le charme
d’un pays? Qui trouvera ce quelque
chose d’intime et d’insaisissable que rien
n’exprime dans les langues humaines?”

Pierre Loti