HONESTY OF THE PERUVIANS 
We found a large tamho at Camp 93, with a tele¬ 
phone and telegraph station. At those tambos it was 
always possible to obtain rice, chickens, and eggs at reason¬ 
able prices, fixed by the Government. In many of the 
tambos were also rough wooden bedsteads, with a more 
or less comfortable mattress. I generally preferred to 
use my own camp-bed. As there were never more than 
one or two rooms in the tambo , you had to sleep in the 
same room with other people, unless you preferred to 
sleep outside, as I did. 
For the privilege of sleeping at any tambo , in or out 
of doors, one paid the small sum of one shilling. A 
dinner or lunch seldom cost more than two shillings, and 
breakfast eightpence to one shilling. The food for the 
animals could be reckoned at one shilling for each mule, 
the price being higher at the Yessup end of the journey 
and getting gradually lower as one got nearer the capital. 
Of course one could not call travelling over the Andes 
in any way luxurious. The tablecloths at the tambos 
showed all round the table the marks of the dirty lips 
of previous travellers, and plentiful stains of soup, coffee, 
and tea. The illumination consisted usually of a candle 
placed in the mouth of a bottle, which was used as a 
candlestick. 
I saw more Campas Indians there. They were sing¬ 
ing songs strongly resembling Malay melodies, to the 
accompaniment of Spanish guitars. Other songs influ¬ 
enced by Spanish airs, but still delivered in a typically 
Malay fashion, were also given that evening. They in¬ 
terested me greatly. 
On January twenty-second we left Camp 93. I was 
struck everywhere at those tambos by the great honesty 
of the Peruvians. I was often touched by the extreme 
kindness of the people and their considerate manner —- 
although perhaps it was more particularly striking to me 
after my experience of the brutal behaviour of the lower- 
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