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THATCH RESIDENCE OF THE CHIEF OF THE TALAMANCAS |
FALLEN FROM THEIR FORBEARS' HIGH ESTATE |
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| The scattered Indian tribes of the Atlantic forest zone of Costa Rica are grouped together in a single family under the name of Talamanca. Their numbers, greatly reduced in recent years, are now estimated at about 3,000. They made such a stubborn resistance against their Spanish conquerors that history records them as having fought "with greater valour than any other nation of the Indies" | Capital of the Inca empire, Cuzco's streets are trodden still by Indians in whose veins run Inca blood. Of refined features and often of light-coloured skins, they regard the Spanish-speaking peoples as interlopers and intruders |