Professor Coello understood all these matters perfectly and, being able to speak Quichua, the language of our prospective carriers, did his best in the way of argument, not only out of loyalty to the Expedition, but because Peruvian gentlemen always regard the carrying of a load as extremely undignified and improper.

My friend was favorably known and spoke the Quichua language fluently.

On Sunday afternoon the plaza of Santa Rosa was well filled with Quichua holiday-makers, many of whom had been imbibing freely of chicha, a mild native brew usually made from ripe corn.

The Quichua women are never idle.

They had never seen a dog that could understand anything but Quichua!

The Quichua face is broad and short.

One hardly ever sees a fat Quichua.

In testing the hand grip of the Quichuas by a dynamometer our surgeons found that the muscles of the forearm were poorly developed in the Quichua and the maximum grip was weak in both sexes, the average for the man being only about half of that found among American white adults of sedentary habits.

Dr. Ferris says the Labrador Eskimo and the Quichua constitute the two "best-known short-stature races on the American continent.

Pucará is the Quichua word for fortress and it needs but one glance at the little hilltop crowned with a rectangular fortification to realize that the term is justified.

The word Ayahuaycco in Quichua means "the valley of dead bodies" or "dead man's gulch."

Probably a large part of its citizens are of mixed Spanish and Quichua ancestry.

Calancha goes on to say: "In this white stone of the aforesaid House of the Sun, which is called Yurac Rumi [meaning, in Quichua, a white rock], there attends a Devil who is Captain of a legion.

The Quichua language has no sound of V. The early Spanish writers, however, wrote the capital letter U exactly like a capital V. In official documents and letters Uiticos became Viticos.

Uru is the Quichua word for caterpillars or grubs, pampa means flat land.

The Quichua dictionaries tell us huilca is a "medicine, a purgative."

We were told that the name of the hill was "Rosaspata," a word of modern hybrid originpata being Quichua for "hill," while rosas is the Spanish word for "roses."

Then they set before us a few cooked sweet potatoes, called here cumara, a Quichua word identical with the Polynesian kumala, as has been pointed out by Mr. Cook.

The principal difficulty with this theory is that while the first meaning of tocco in Holguin's standard Quichua dictionary is "ventana" or "window," and while "window" is the only meaning given this important word in Markham's revised Quichua dictionary (1908), a dictionary compiled from many sources, the second meaning of tocco given by Holguin is "alacena," "a cupboard set in a wall."

The principal difficulty with this theory is that while the first meaning of tocco in Holguin's standard Quichua dictionary is "ventana" or "window," and while "window" is the only meaning given this important word in Markham's revised Quichua dictionary (1908), a dictionary compiled from many sources, the second meaning of tocco given by Holguin is "alacena," "a cupboard set in a wall."

O. F. Cook: Quichua Names of Sweet Potatoes.

Anthropological Studies on the Quichua and Machiganga Indians.

Quichua words should always be pronounced as nearly as possible as they are written.

A Spanish derivative from the Quichua mucha, "a kiss."

QUICHUAS, a civilised people who flourished at one time in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, and spoke a highly-cultivated language called Quichua after them.