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] lctter from young pcntl'nlen Ol TINS village,
at prcsent ON The +, S ship S. Noyv's
cruising on the Pacific Coast.
ST. MARYs, IrtcHo, PEnr.
South America, March 10TH 1sii5
We left Callao, Feb, 27th, and came to
Iuaco, bringing with us a passengers, the american
Minister to Peru, Mr.. ]. Randolph Clay, and family
have had good opportunity for seeing this coun-
try and find much that is aud interesting. The
ancient peruvisrs vhom ri,arro tried to c1'crmin
ate still alive in their direct descendants and
still hate the Spaniards and the Catholic religion
Many have ntcrmarrcd with the Spanish and for.
gotten the days of DID, hut the Incas still exist and
believe that the day is coming when all their dead
countrymon will rise from their graves and assist in
regalnng the freedom of Peru There is one house
here when family of these descendants of tho
ancient princes live and they tate TN idol put mp
on the edge of the roof just as they used to. The
country,s full of the Of the days of the lncas
The burial places, called huocas in which the
tvcs buried their dead before the conquest by
Pizarro, principally attract attention They were
formed by digging few feet below the surface Of the
earth and laying in the dead with various articles
of food &C., and covering tho body with sort Of
case or trough made Of edrthcr ware then another
body laid by tho side of the first, and until
a certain number wcre thus buried and then they
laid another layer above the first placing each body
in the second tier, between two Of the lower. Thus
sort of pyramid formed, which when complete
covered with clay baked in the The Peru
vians believe that afer death the soul goes beyond
tho to paradise, and therefore they bury with
the body such things as they think it will need on
its passage. They also buried the shore
and buried inland. Pizarro ordered
those huacas destroyed and therefore very few Of
them exist at the present day.
! The customs of this country are very different
from ours. There is not house in this town but
that may walk into, if the door is open, and make
myself perfectly at home az if had known the
family all my life. Last Thursday Mr.. Clay in
vited three of our officers to accompany party of
gentlemen and ladie, who going out to visit
! the hacienda, or farm house, Of Of the richest
men in Peru, and two Of tho midshipmen and my
self accepted the invitation
After very dusty ride Of ton miles in the hot
sun we arrived at the Hacienda. The roads were
. very sandy and walled in both sides with heavy
mud walls dried hard in the sun. We passed many
fields of sugar cane, but there very few large
trees and woods groves be seen, except here
and there a clump of willows or a grove of orange
or fig trees. We crossed large bridge which va.
built several hundred years ago by the Inca and has
stood all this time 1t is made of unburncd bricks,
and the stream arches, tho middle pier
resting high rock in the middle of the river
The bridge is straight like our bridges but turns
in the middle that it is almost like turning corner
in street. This is almost the only thing, except
tho huacas, that remains in th, part of the country
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lived here. The Spanish conoucrors have let the
country degenerate In the days of the Inca veg
citation aourishcd everywhere, bu, now the country
looks like barren waste, almost, for the conqueror,
too lazy to cultivate the soil, and it is becoming
desert of sand After stopping twice on the way
TO rest from the excessive heat, We arrived at the
Hacienda There the steward and the Of the
owner with many slaves out to receive u and
take our horses. We entered the house and was
very much surprised at it, dirty and fororn appear
ance The mastcr and mistress do not live out there
but had accompanied us from town. The floors of
the hacienda were made of hardened mud and were
very rough and uneven. There was no furniture
except large, long table, number of kitchen
chairs and few heavy wooden sofas with no cushions
We went out in the garden, which a Oh walled
enclosure entered by door in the wall, and there
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There were figs, grapes, oranges, bananas, pomc-
granates, and mary other delicious fruits, the
Of which were told me in Spanish, but which did
not remember. The garden wa. not laid out in
walks, but every thing was in confusion and at
tention seemed to be paid to the cultivation pru-
ming of the vines and trees all grew in tangled
luxuriance. We helped ourselves as we chose and
found the fruit delicious. On leaving the garden,
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