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Updated: June 11, 2025
You know I'm teaching Golden Star English, and Vilcaroya is teaching you Quichua now, I wonder which of you will be able to talk to the other first? He pulled his moustache and laughed, looking at Golden Star the while, and said,
We rode on, however, without interruption for the remainder of the day, and stopped towards evening at a small mud hut, inhabited by a Quichua family, who willingly agreed with Don Jose to conceal and protect us with their lives. In the morning we proceeded in the same way as on the previous day.
At length the second Indian he who held Harry's wrist nodded to the first, saying, in a low voice, in the ancient Quichua language: "It is enough; nothing will now awaken him," whereupon the holder of the cloth returned it and the phial to his pouch and stepped back from the side of the bed.
The Quichua name for the tree, quina-quina "bark of barks" shows that they believed it to possess medicinal properties; indeed, there is little doubt that they were aware of its febrifugal qualities, though they might not have attached much importance to them. Through them, probably, the Spanish colonists in the neighbourhood of Loxa first discovered its virtues.
In Upper Guiana also the Orinoco is called Parava. In the Peruvian, or Quichua, I find rain, para; to rain, parani. Besides, there is a lake in Peru that has been very anciently called Paria. This is a striking example of identity of name between an American nation and the territory it possessed.
R. S. Williams: Peruvian Mosses. Bulletin of Torrey Botanical Club, XLIII, 323-334, June, 1916. 4 pl. Many people have asked me how to pronounce Machu Picchu. Quichua words should always be pronounced as nearly as possible as they are written. They represent an attempt at phonetic spelling.
"To-morrow, if you are stronger, I will answer the questions I see you are eager to put. Now, farewell!" He shook his head when he saw that I was about again to speak, and went off across the glade. I next tried to interrogate Nita, speaking in the Quichua language, supposing she did not understand Spanish; but with a smile she signed to me not to talk.
Professor Coello understood all these matters perfectly and, being able to speak Quichua, the language of our prospective carriers, did his best in the way of argument, not only out of loyalty to the Expedition, but because Peruvian gentlemen always regard the carrying of a load as extremely undignified and improper.
At this another murmur ran round the hall, and every head was bowed in assent. Now all this time the three Englishmen had been standing patiently in the midst of the hall, looking about them at its splendours, and waiting till I should speak to them, for the professor knew enough of the Quichua tongue to follow what I had been saying, and had told the others that I was speaking of them.
The Masonry Wall with Three Windows, Machu Picchu The principal difficulty with this theory is that while the first meaning of tocco in Holguin's standard Quichua dictionary is "ventana" or "window," and while "window" is the only meaning given this important word in Markham's revised Quichua dictionary , a dictionary compiled from many sources, the second meaning of tocco given by Holguin is "alacena," "a cupboard set in a wall."
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