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Cornugaya Directory 07
The day will come when the port of Arica on the Pacific Ocean will be
joined to Oruro, on the Antofagasta line, the well-known junction in
Bolivia, and eventually to Santa Cruz. The present plan is to build a
line from the already existing railway at Cochabamba to Porto Velarde on
the Rio Grande (Rio Mamore), then to Santa Cruz. The Brazilians on their
side will eventually connect Sao Paulo with Cuyaba and Corumba. It will
then be possible to travel by rail right across the South American
continent in its richest part.
The matrimonial stone was interesting enough. It was a double vessel
carved out of a solid stone, a perforation being made in the partition
between the two vessels. It seems, when marriages were performed, that
the Incas placed a red liquid in one vessel and some water in the other,
the perforation in the central partition being stopped up until the
ceremony took place, when the liquids were allowed to mingle in emblem of
the union of the two lives. Curious, too, was the pipe-like arrangement,
called the _kenko_, ornamented with a carved jaguar head, also used at
their marriage ceremonies.
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