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Peru as It Is, Volume 2 (of 2)

Note 68 — APPENDIX

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“Let Indian pipe.”—The Indians of Alto Peru mourn the Incas in “tristes,” which they play upon a kind of pipe. In the time of the Spaniards, at one time they were forbidden to tune these mournful airs, from political motives.

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