The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-05-12

Y OF Spain ana SOME tI n FG4iA-
ings were given by Philip III.
/ went into the Sacristy. This IS a
museum of antique carving and paint
ing, and in one Of the walls is a
vault filled with treasures,
gold, silver. and precious stones. The
total value is said to be more than
$1,000, 600, and a large part OF this IS
made up by what is known as the Gus
todia. a box that contains the sacra-
ment at the times of professions. This
box is of solid old. 1t weighs thirty
six pounds and it was made OF gold
plates that were taken from the Inca
Temple of the Sun The diamonds
and emeralds upon it are worth more
than the gold itself. These treas
ures are stored away in a close with
a door Of wrought iron. so rude that
it could be opened by any safe-breaker
or common United States burglar. 1t
is perhaps the reverence of h peo-
pie and the fear Of damnation that
preserve it from theft.
AS ] stood in the Cathedral, mass
was being celebrated. Two hundred
women dressed all in black, with
black shawls owe their heads. knelt
on the stone floor. There were per
haps twenty men scattered owe the
church and through them all were
patches OF color made by h Indians
who wore ponchoS of red, blue, or yell
low LII WlOS0 OdIC Ic0I were IuEI1OO
up to the rOof as they muttered their
prayers. There were also Indian wo-
men in short skirts and red shawls,
some of whom had packs on their
backs and not a few Of whom had
babies.
Leaving the Cathedral, 1 took a
stroll through the city. l first visited
the p%ortales or stores selling Indian
goods. These run along the opposite
side of the plaza facing the cathedal.
They take up h ground floors of a
block Of tWO-stOry houses, the upper
stories of which extend out over the
street and are upheld by stone col
umns, forming an arcade, where h
gayly clad customers walk or stand
as they shop. The stores are k
v or holes in the wall. The door
ways look as though they were cut
out with a cross-cut saw. They are
Of rectangular shape and are flush
with the street. The night l arrived
in Cuzco was one of the saints days.
and the stores were shut by thick
slabs OF wood hat come together
the folding doors Of a barn. In
deed they look more like stable doors
than those Of a store. Some are closed
and kept SO with great padlocks Of
wrought iron, centuries old. Single
locks weigh ten or twenty pounds,
and they are SO constructed that one
must use a half dozen keys to open
them.
The next day as I again strolled
through these arcades 1 saw that all
or the stOrekeepers are ONE They
are fat Cholos who wear very full
skirts and who keep their shawls and
hats on while attending to business.
Many OF them have some manufacture
ing, in addition to their selling. They
have 1rff1o hor1 ~04A:--- -A.-z
they rest upon boxes or chairs, and,
kneeling or sitting or the floor, make
the garments that the Indians use.
From these cave-like shops I walk
ed around the corner and up a mar
row street walled with merchandising
establishments of a better class. Here
the stores are larger, but they have
1ne same cave-like entrances and are
OF much the same character. One
block is called Coca street, because
every shop on each side Of it has
bales OF coca leaves among it's wares.
L watched the Indians shopping and
noticed that each Of them bought
coca, although the most Of them had
at the time guilds of these leaves in
their cheeks.
Going onward, I passed the ancient
built by the Incas and watch
the pongo or indian man house sery-
ant filing his jars. This fountain
represents a young girl with a figure
Ilhe d cnrysanthemum over her head,
on the top of which is a. cross. The
ngure is nude and out Of the breasts
pour two continuous streams Of pnre
water p"
A little farther on / stopped to look
at the market. This is held in a
piazza about half IF which is covered
with long galvanized iron sheds ~
heio oy posts. Under the sheds are
INK cO1nfQTS ynn1
IS laid out for sale, and farther over
are sheds for vegetables, where the
lnolan n Cholo women sit on the
stones with their wares piled around
them. Still farther over are shads
Tor fruits, and in the wide, omen
spaces out in the sun, the are selling
fuel consisting Of W cd, llama drone
pings and charcoal. There arc otbar
peddiers here and there, and scatt =.
ed about are cook shops, where THO
Qulcha Indians are eating soup and
iron stoves while YOU uait ~