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PERU
Recent  archaeological  finds  warrant  some
authorities  in  claiming  Peru  to  have  been  the
home  of  a  highly  civilized  and  cultured  people
25,000  years  before  Christ.  The  race  which
inhabited  the  land  then  were  the  Chumus,  the
progenitors  of  the  Incas,  whom  Pizarro  found
when  his  expedition  arrived  in  Peru  from
Panama  in  1532.  The  Incas  had  a  socialistic
form  of  government,  were  able  engineers,
good  surgeons,  noted  agriculturists  and  really
a  wonderful  people.  The  treatment  of  this
docile  and  intellectual  nation  by  the  invading
Spaniards  is  one  of  the  darkest  pages  of  history. ­

Francisco  Pizarro  founded  Lima,  the  capital ­
  of  Peru,  in  1535,  was  appointed  by  the
Crown  governor  of  the  newly  acquired  terri ­