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Example sentences for "tambo"

Lexicographically close words:
tamarind; tamarinds; tamarisk; tamarisks; tambien; tambour; tambourine; tambourines; tambours; tame
  1. Tambo and Bones in all sorts and manner of scrapes.

  2. So Ishikola, whose tambo was water, was crusted with the filth of years.

  3. It was the peculiar tambo laid upon him by the devil-devil doctors.

  4. Among these he mentions that of Timpucpuquio, the "hot springs" near Tambo Machai, "called so from the manner in which the water boils up.

  5. The next huaca, or holy place, he mentions is Tambo Machai itself, "a house of the Inca Yupanqui, where he was entertained when he went to be married.

  6. At length his sufferings became so great that we began to fear we must leave him behind, as to carry him on to the tambo would be impossible; though, if left behind, he would certainly die in a few minutes.

  7. Before dark we reached a tambo situated at a lower level and exposed to the free air, but even there we felt it very cold.

  8. Frequently three days are occupied by persons on horseback, but you march so quickly that we may do it in less time; and there is a tambo about midway where we can obtain shelter.

  9. The delay, however, might have been fatal to all of us, as darkness had already begun to spread over the deep valley, and we could see no tambo ahead.

  10. The Tambo was found to be a narrow stream, full of rocks and rapids and not practicable for navigation by steamers.

  11. The average current from the mouth of the river to Pucacura is 2 miles per hour, and from Pucacura to the confluence of the Tambo and Urubamba 3 miles per hour.

  12. He then proceeded to make an important expedition up the Upper Amazon, the Ucayali and the Tambo rivers.

  13. From the pass the trail dropped a trifle and we crowded for that night into the tambo in Yngenio.

  14. This, with six horses to haul it to the top of the alto and then with horses in relays at each tambo would bring us to Achicachi on the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in one single day of from before dawn till sunset.

  15. The Spaniard's idea was to stop in one of the mud rooms of the tambo and ride in, freshened, foam-bedecked, and prancing in the morning.

  16. At the mud walled tambo of Cocuta the first change of horses was made.

  17. Before we reached Machicomaca, the next tambo for new horses where we ate breakfast in a mud walled, windowless room, the brake broke or fell off and had been lost somewhere on the rough trail.

  18. At last the old, deserted tambo for which we had been aiming was reached.

  19. The tambo was surrounded by a high, thick mud-brick wall that inclosed something over an acre of ground, and inside this fortress were the little mud buildings, granaries, and corrals.

  20. For some reason of his own Rodriguez elected to leave the main trail beyond this tambo and take one of the little-used back trails to Sorata.

  21. Had she refused, he would have been in a quandary, for his tambo would not have permitted him to lay hands on her.

  22. Tambo is Melanesian for taboo, and is first cousin to that Polynesian word.

  23. Near by, I saw some Indian huts and the tambo or tavern where Frank Dunn and I had stopped on our way to Puno.

  24. We soon gained the highway leading to Tambo and after being well clear of Ilo, we put our horses to their best.

  25. When we were entering the tambo an elderly gentleman and the Indian host were speaking in Spanish, and even from my limited knowledge of the language I knew they were talking about me.

  26. After getting to the head of the Tambo valley, I proceeded to Mollendo and found a terrible state of affairs.

  27. The heads are named Don Juan Tambo Usca Mayta, and Don Baltasar Quiso Mayta.

  28. The citizens of Cuzco were well satisfied with the arrangement, for they were given what cost little, and thus he made friends by presents taken from others, and took as his own the valley of Tambo [which was not his].

  29. A small Peruvian steamer has recently ascended the Tambo to within sixty miles of Fort Ramon, or seven hundred and seventy-three miles from Nauta.

  30. They usually bury in the church or in the tambo of the deceased.

  31. Fray Martin de Morua, in his Historia del Origen y Genealogia de los Incas, a work written in 1590, but still inedited, gives the following names of those who came out of Tambo Toco or Pacaric Tombo.

  32. At this tambo the traveller may find a tolerable night's lodging for himself, and fodder for his horse.

  33. At the point where this Quebrada forms a junction with the principal valley is situated the Tambo de Viso.

  34. The most considerable streams of the south-eastern confluence are those which rise in the heights of Carhuapampa, and near Tambo de Viso, flow into the main stream.

  35. In the Tambo de Viso I met an officer who, with two of his sons, was coming from the Sierra.

  36. In the capital a tambo affords the traveller the accommodation of a room, containing a table, a chair, and a bedstead; for it is always understood that he brings his mattress and bedding along with him.

  37. Next to the fortress of Cuzco, the ruins at Tambo or Ollantay-tambo, in the valley of Yucay, are the most astonishing in Peru.

  38. The ruins of the palace of Lima-tambo are situated in a delightful spot, commanding a fine view.

  39. The fortress of Tambo is built on the rock which forms the western portal to the ravine.

  40. Bones captured the chair at one end, and Tambo pre-empted that on the other; and they began their wordy skirmish with the Middleman, in which that pompous presiding officer always got the worst of it.

  41. He then formed a new station for Mr. Macalister on some country he had found on the Tambo River, and went himself on another trip of discovery.

  42. Tambo River down its course through fine grazing country, both plains and forest, until in due course it led them to the point of its embouchure in the lakes of the south coast.

  43. The Valle del Tambo is a narrow valley shaded by beautiful trees, and almost wholly sheltered from the storms which rage on the mounts.

  44. The tambo del Almendral--we know it well; there are two magnificent almond trees before the door.


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