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It is, however, more reasonable to suppose that the Quichuas and Aimaras were a race of emigrants from Plato's island than to think that Atlantis was populated from South America.

From Atlantis : the antediluvian world by Donnelly, Ignatius

As might have been foreseen, he chafed under restraint, escaped as soon as possible from his attentive guardians, and raised an army of faithful Quichuas.

From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Bingham, Hiram

"You mean that you would choose to be King over the Chancas rather than stand next to the throne among the Quichuas?" he said, scanning me sharply.

From The Virgin of the Sun by Haggard, Henry Rider

Forbes, D., on the Aymara Indians; on local variation of colour in the Quichuas; on the hairlessness of the Aymaras and Quichuas; on the long hair of the Aymaras and Quichaus.

From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles

The native inhabitants of the central region of the Andes are known as the Quichuas, and their chief characteristics are common to the greater number of the tribes along the whole extent of the range.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles