Word: peruvian
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...Peruvian sailors watching the crazy craft under construction at Callao thought the six Scandinavians must be mad. The crude raft was made of balsa logs, the longest 45 ft. long, hauled from the Ecuadorian jungles and lashed together with ropes. A crude steering oar swung astern; a big, archaic square sail drooped drunkenly from the mast, and the cabin aft was a bamboo hut thatched with banana leaves...
...among the 6,000 listeners in Hollywood Bowl who could hardly believe their ears when the exotic [Peruvian singer] Yma Sumac stepped upon that platform and displayed what the critics later so aptly described as "the most phenomenal voice of the generation...
...first few bars of a Peruvian folk chant called High Andes, the full-figured Peruvian girl onstage rumbled roundly at the bottom of contralto range. Then, to their astonishment, she soared effortlessly up a full four octaves, began trilling like a canary at the top of coloratura. At the end of her first song, the audience was still too surprised to raise more than warm applause. The second, Tumpa (Earthquake), brought cheers; after the third, a pyrotechnical Inca Hymn to the Sun, the applause and cheers swelled to a roar for encores. Guest Conductor Arthur Fiedler, who had a plane...
...little attention. Her story had some of the qualities of a movie scenario in itself. A proud, quicktempered beauty, she was born Emperatriz Chavarri in a tiny village in the highlands of the northern Andes. At the age of eight, she. was chanting rituals before 30,000 sun-worshiping Peruvian Indians. She is still a sun worshiper herself...
...Puno, on the Peruvian side of the lake, 2,000 garishly dressed Indians, many of them barefoot, were drinking and dancing in the biting cold. All around the town plaza shops did a roaring business selling chicha, cane alcohol or beer...