Crossword-Solution: TAMBOS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

One of his tambos (tambo being beche-de-mer and Melanesian for "taboo") was that water unavoidable must never touch his skin.

The Casas del Rey are to be found in all the Spanish colonies, and may be deemed an imitation of the tambos of Peru, which were established in conformity with the laws of Manco Capac.

Although the reedy undergrowth had already choked it, we were travelling over ground that we knew, and it was also no longer necessary to delay for the building of _tambos_; we used the old ones again.

The other bridges mentioned in the text must have been thrown over the Apurimac Proper, somewhere near the town or village of Limatambo.--E.] [Footnote 36: This was probably by Limatambo, as on the great road the Incas had palaces for lodging in with their attendants, called _tambos_.--E.] When all the materials were in readiness, the army began its march for Cotabamba, at which place it was determined to pass the river.

This people was anciently conquered by the Peruvians, after having taken possession of the northern part of Chili; and on the road across the Andes from Cujo to Chili, there still are some small stone buildings, or tambos, which had been erected for the accommodation of the Peruvian officers and messengers.