[bksvol-discuss] Re: scanning error with Last Days of the Incas
- From: "Susan" <slumpkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:01:04 -0500
Scott,
What it looks like to me is that part of your page may be a picture caption.
Go to page 111 and see if the first word on that page makes sense after the
word main. Good luck.
Susan
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] scanning error with Last Days of the Incas
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.
110
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