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Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch, which outfits some of the world's best fishermen, is telling some of its well-heeled clients about a fabulous new South American fishing hole. The place: Lake Titicaca, the world's highest (12,500 ft.) navigable lake, on the border between Bolivia and Peru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: The Trout of Titicaca | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

Dancing in the Wind. One evening last fortnight, a wandering TIME correspondent found the whole population of San Pedro, on Lake Titicaca, dancing in the waterfront plaza. Nobody seemed to notice the icy winds whistling off the lake. The mayor and all the other officials were looping. The only sober man in town was the innkeeper, a young Croat refugee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Social Evil | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...highlands of Bolivia. The" Pacha-Camaj" (Gods of Fertility) then sent down their own sons, the "Paka-Jakes" (Eagle Men), to create a new race of their beloved Aymara people, all of whom had been snowed under by Kun. The Paka-Jakes settled on the land around holy Lake Titicaca, recreated the Aymaras, and named the province Pacajes after themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Last of the Paka-Jakes | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...ghosts and made things tough for his enemies. In the small Aymara pueblos of the Altiplano and among the Indies who worked the copper mines near the Chilean and Peruvian borders, his name was spoken with reverence. On festive days thousands of Indians crowded Lake Titicaca's shores, watched in awe and admiration as Paka-Jake swam: no mortal, sensible Indian would think of swimming in the holy water which is also ice cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Last of the Paka-Jakes | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...even to a god, there comes a time of reckoning. When his female disciples numbered more than 50, young Indians became jealous and old ones were shocked. Even the divine performance in the waters of Titicaca lost its interest, mainly because the Indians found it more fun to watch the new football team which had been organized in Paka-Jake's native village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Last of the Paka-Jakes | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

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