Travels in Peru and Mexico, Volume 2Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 - Chile |
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... cloth , hanging from the waist nearly to the knees . Their women wear the tunic with sleeves . The bodies of those we saw were painted , or rather bedaubed with coloured balsams , chiefly for the purpose of protecting them against the ...
... cloth , hanging from the waist nearly to the knees . Their women wear the tunic with sleeves . The bodies of those we saw were painted , or rather bedaubed with coloured balsams , chiefly for the purpose of protecting them against the ...
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... clothes , though they do not mind being there recognised by their friends . The most free in their habits are said to be the Dominicans . But there is an exception to this manner of life , among the religious orders who leave their ...
... clothes , though they do not mind being there recognised by their friends . The most free in their habits are said to be the Dominicans . But there is an exception to this manner of life , among the religious orders who leave their ...
Page 109
... clothes basket in which the corpse of a young woman was concealed , knocked lightly at the gates of the convent which were immediately opened by the young nun , who had taken the keys from her aunt's bedside . There being no one else ...
... clothes basket in which the corpse of a young woman was concealed , knocked lightly at the gates of the convent which were immediately opened by the young nun , who had taken the keys from her aunt's bedside . There being no one else ...
Page 124
... clothes over their shoulders or on their arms . They generally however put their clothes before them as they came near us and stopped to inquire with great anxiety , how far we reckoned ourselves to be from Panama , and what was the ...
... clothes over their shoulders or on their arms . They generally however put their clothes before them as they came near us and stopped to inquire with great anxiety , how far we reckoned ourselves to be from Panama , and what was the ...
Page 128
... clothes on whatever , with her hair hanging in natural curls upon her shoulders , and was occupied in kneading cakes for the travellers . Had her colour , and the form of her features been those of a negress , there might perhaps have ...
... clothes on whatever , with her hair hanging in natural curls upon her shoulders , and was occupied in kneading cakes for the travellers . Had her colour , and the form of her features been those of a negress , there might perhaps have ...
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