CHAPTER III.

College of Sciences and Arts at Cuzco—Students—Library—Popularity of Fenimore Cooper's works—Convents—Cock-pits—Procession—Condition of the Aborigines anterior to the Incas—Manco Capac and his wife—Their language—Antiquities—Incas fortress—Worship of the planetary bodies—Suspicion of intercourse between ancient civilized Asia and south Peru—Temperature of bull's blood—Reception of the prefect's family—Sham fight among the Quichua Indians—Barley and corn crops—Trade—Loss of Paititi—Thermal springs—Hospitality of a Cura—Lampa—Gold mines of Carabaya—Lake Titicaca—Appearance of the Indians—Puno military—Niggardly soil. 55