Sol: Peruvian silver dollar, worth about two shillings or a little less than half a gold dollar.
Sorocho: Mountain-sickness.
Stone-peg: A roughly cylindrical block of stone bonded into the walls of a house and projecting 10 or 12 inches on the inside so as to permit of its being used as a clothes-peg. Stone-pegs are often found alternating with niches and placed on a level with the lintels of the niches.
Temblor: A slight earthquake.
Temporales: Small fields of grain which cannot be irrigated and so depend on the weather for their moisture.
Teniente gobernador: Administrative officer of a small village or hamlet.
Terremoto: A severe earthquake.
Tesoro: Treasure.
Tutu: A hardy variety of white potato not edible in a fresh state, used for making chuño, after drying, freezing, and pressing out the bitter juices.
Ulluca: An edible root.