[bksvol-discuss] scanning error with Last Days of the Incas
- From: Scott Berry <sberry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:53:28 -0500
Hello there,
I see in this
page that there is som info missing. If you read down to the word main and
then read the next line there is something missing and I am unsure what it is.
I am aassuming then that this page should be rescanned. Is this correct?
Here is the page with the problem:
no good grass like that in Spain. There are also wild turnips [potatoes] that
are bitter. There are many herds of sheep [llamas and alpacas], which go about
in flocks with their shepherds who watch over them and keep them away from the
sown fields. They have a certain part of [each] province set apart for them
[the herds] to winter in. The people, as I have said, are very polite and
intelligent and always go about dressed and with footwear. They eat cooked and
raw corn and drink a lot of chicha, which is a beverage made from corn that is
much like beer. The people are very friendly and very obedient and [yet]
warlike. They have many weapons of diverse sorts, as has been told.
Like Cortes's men gaining their first glimpse of Tenochtitlan—the capital of the Aztecs that his fellow
Spaniards likened to a city more wondrous than Venice—when the three travelers finally arrived in Cuzco,
after more than a month of being carried ever southward, they, too, were stunned by what they beheld. Nestled on
a hillside that opened into a broad valley at 11,300 feet, the Incas' mountain capital appeared like some
medieval town in the Swiss Alps, with smoke rising from the thatched roofs of its high-gabled houses and with
green hillsides and snow-and-ice-covered mountains rising in the distance. "This city is the greatest and
finest that has ever been seen in this realm or even in the Indies," the Spaniards later wrote the king.
"And we can assure your Majesty that it is so beautiful and has such fine buildings that it would be very
remarkable even in Spain." Wrote Sancho de la Hoz:
[It is] full of the palaces of the lords. . . . The greater part of these
houses are made of stone and others have half of the facade of stone . . . the
streets are laid out at right angles. They are very straight and are paved with
stones and down the middle runs a gutter for water and lined with stone... .
The plaza is square and the greater part of it is flat and paved with small
stones. Around it are four palaces of lords, which are the main
All wild potatoes contain toxic glycoalkaloids, giving them a bitter taste.
Those that grow at elevations of more than nine thousand feet and are
frost-resistant have even higher concentrations of them. The Incas and their
ancestors freeze-dried potatoes, a process of alternately freezing, crushing,
and then drying potatoes that served to break down the glycoalkaloids and also
made their storage easier. The Incas called the finished, freeze- dried product
chuno; it was and still is an essential ingredient in traditional Andean stews.
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