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58 A CITY IN THE ANDES.
the boarding-house where you ar e staying comes round
every morning and asks you to pay your board for
the day. Oth erwise he could not buy food.
8. There is not a chimney in all Quito. The
weather is seldom cold enough to require a fire for
heati ng purposes, and all the cooki ng is done with
charcoal on a sort of shelf like a blacksmith's forge.
There must be a different fire for every pot or kettle.
Two pel'SOns attend to the cooking-the one with a
pair of bellows, to keep the fires from going out; and
the othe r to keep the pots from falling over, for th ey
are made with rounded bottoms.
9. The Indians form the labouring population,
an d they carry all their burdens on th eir backs.
They genemlly go at a slow trot when on a journey,
which th ey can keep up for hours without tiring.
Th ey never laugh or sing, and they have no sports, no
songs, no tales; they are sullen and stupid, and submissive
to all sorts of cruelty and oppression. Three
hundred and fifty years of Spanish rul e have crushed
the spirit of the poor son of the I nca, so that he no
longer smiles.
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