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Show HOMB LITE IK PERU. My homo In thia wonderful volley, where for weeks en three aeparat expedition expedi-tion I hav bn hoapltably mtarUlntd, la for th moat part a houae of a single story built around two courta or patiee. Arriving an foot or horseback, one passes through a wide vestibule Into a large patio surrounded by a covered corridor or veranda and the principal rooms of the dwelling. The drawing room la furnished with Brussels carpet, large mirror, marble mar-ble topped table and expensive upholstered uphol-stered furniture. A piano, too. Is here, aa In every house where 1 w nter-talned. nter-talned. Th stranger coming, as he must, on horseback, ninety miles from the seaport of Caama or Hamanco up over the Black range and down Into the valley, val-ley, will wonder how the great mirrors, the piano, the heavy French furniture, were brought to thla town to which no railroad or carriage road leada. Neither mule nor burro, the ordinary freight car-rlera car-rlera here, can transport a piano on his back. From Samanro a cad road leada thirty mllee te Moro. For the remaining eighty mllee. up over a paea a bkfh as the top of the eiatternnm. I4.TO0 feet, and down a ateep path to the valley, the piano le born on Jhe shoulders of men. Luckily for the genllefolk. labor Is cheap J cents a day. Harper a Bexar. |