[75] See page [234] and notes.
[77] See Cuzco and Lima, p. 12.
[80] The indigenous cotton of the coast valleys of Peru, from which the Yunca Indians wove their cloths, is a perennial plant with a long staple, which now fetches a very high price in the Liverpool market, as a valuable sort. I have recently introduced its cultivation into the Madras Presidency, where the result has been very successful, and the Peruvian cotton is considered as one of the most promising of the foreign kinds. The wool is perfectly white, but about one in every fifty plants yields cotton of a deep orange-brown colour. This sport, on the part of the cotton plants, attracted the attention of the Yuncas; who looked upon the dark coloured wool as sacred, and the heads of their mummies were wrapped in it. The same thing has taken place in India, much to the astonishment of the cultivators, who cannot understand why one of the plants should yield brown cotton, and all the others snow white; when the leaves, flowers, seeds, and pods are the same in all. One cultivator in South Arcot scrubbed the brown cotton with soap and water, but without changing its colour.
[81] See pages 251 to 254.
[84] See chapters lxi to lxv.