Habas beans: Broad beans.
Huaca: A sacred or holy place or thing, sometimes a boulder. Often applied to a piece of prehistoric pottery.
Mañana: To-morrow, or by and by. The ”mañana habit” is Spanish-American procrastination.
Mestizo: A half-breed of Spanish and Indian ancestry.
Milpa: A word used in Central America for a small farm or clearing. The milpa system of agriculture involves clearing the forest by fire, destroys valuable humus and forces the farmer to seek new fields frequently.
Montaña: Jungle, forest. The term usually applied by Peruvians to the heavily forested slopes of the Eastern Andean valleys and the Amazon Basin.
Oca: Hardy, edible root, related to sheep sorrel.
Quebrada: A gorge or ravine.
Quipu: Knotted, parti-colored strings used by the ancient Peruvians to keep records. A mnemonic device.
Roof-peg: A roughly cylindrical block of stone bonded into Page 344a gable wall and allowed to project 12 or 15 inches on the outside. Used in connection with “eye-bonders,” the roof-pegs served as points to which the roof could be tied down.