"Charqui" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... slaughtered; their skins were reserved for the various useful manufactures to which they are ordinarily applied, and their flesh, cut into thin slices, was distributed among the people, who converted it into charqui, the dried meat of the country, which constituted then the sole, as it has since the principal, animal food of ...
— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott |
