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Then The day before we left they gave a dinner party first we went launch on the River then to dinne. We had a panama hat on each of our places worth in American money 50 dollars as there in Ecudor they make the finest hats. Ours were Christobol hats the most expensive are the Jipithapi [jipijapa] Hats they are like linen made by the Indiians. Then they have the most wonderfull hammocks there handwovven like a Panama hat, I receive a present of one of those and a little tiny native bird and called a Mantito is [it] sings sweetly and has an orange collored front and its head back & tail are blue black and sometimes mauve coloured it is a darling and then I had to little paragees different shades of green and deep orange under the wings Well I arrived safly with my birdies here to the Hotel And as they were so tame I left them crawl around their cage as their wings were cliped and they could not fly suddely I missed one he had fallen into the street and a man had quickly picked him up and stuck him into his pocket and ran off I was heart broken for that was the tamest birdie I ever saw it ate from my hand came to me when I called it and oh it was just to sweet The other one is not so tame But I have hopes that it will tame I have it and my little Mantito left. Ecudor was warm in the afternoon & cool in the evening But here in Lima it is quite cold sometimes especialy in the evenings they say the further south we are going the colder it will be I sleap with two blackets on my bed so I cant imagine what the other places will be like. The Incas a very ferocious tribe of Indians here in the interior had many years ago a way of muming heads and making a human head by taking the bones from the skull them shrank the skin so that the head is no bigger than a small coconut I have seen one and it is tiny human face born of course with long black hair just the head they cept [kept]. A Lady who came from Chimbote one of the ports, Mrs. Reeves they have a huge sugar plantation about 12 miles inland and all the boats that stop at Chimbote a day have their English pleople go and visite these people who

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