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feet while we took matee, more refreshing still than tea after a day’s 
journey. 
In due time a most plentiful supper appeared, beginning with 
eggs in various forms, followed by stews and ollas of beef, mutton, 
and fowls, and terminated by apples ; to which full justice was done, 
from the egg to the apple, as well as to Don Jorge’s wines. 
September 3d. — This morning the sun rose clear and bright, and 
discovered the Andes, and even the nearer hijls, completely covered 
with snow which fell last night, while it rained below. Before break- 
fast we were shown the storehouses of the farm. First, the granary, 
now nearly emptied of its wheat: on one part of the spare floor a 
well-dried hide was spread, and on it fresh beef for immediate use, 
according to the fashion of the country, cut in strips about three 
inches wide, the bones being thrown away. There were, besides, 
hanging round thongs of every kind, and lagas, and bands all ready 
for use. Within the granary was a second dispense, hung round with 
tallow candles; on the floor, there were many hundred arobas of 
tallow in skins, ready for sale; and, in one corner, I saw a heap of 
skimmings, i. e. the refuse fat after the melting of the suet for tallow. 
This, I find, is what the peons use, instead of butter or oil, to enrich 
their cookery, and it is as necessary to them as ghee to an East 
Indian. In another place, were the yokes and goads for the oxen, 
and the spades for the diggers of water-channels, &c. ; these are of 
very hard wood, with a long handle, the use of iron spades being, as 
yet, confined to the gardens near the city and places near the port, 
where foreigners have made them common. A side-door in the 
storehouse admitted us into a square court; on one side of which is 
the butchery, where, in the proper season, that is, late in autumn, 
the beasts are slaughtered for hides, tallow, and charqui. At present 
it looks like an unfinished shed; in the season it is covered with 
green boughs, in order that the animals, and all about them, may be 
kept cool. On one side of the square is a melting-house for the 
tallow. The pots are made of clay upon the estate; they are two 
inches and a half thick. Next to the melting-house is the shed with 
