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Germans, French, Spaniards, Italians, and lastly the Clii- 

 lenos following suit. A hook and ladder company, consisting 

 of English, Germans, and North Americans, was set on foot 

 in 1850. All the arrangements are modelled after the Fire 

 Companies of the United States. The engines were im- 

 ported from New York, and cost over £800 a piece. The 

 French displayed the greatest luxmy in the splendid uni- 

 forms of their company and the elegant fittings of their 

 very beautiful engine ; the Germans^, on the other hand — not 

 always the case with them — show but a very simple attire- 

 ment, but are behind no other nation in the zeal and courage 

 with which their fire company performs its self-imposed 

 duties. 



Valparaiso is sadly deficient in suitable promenades, and 

 consequently strangers must not be surprised, should they 

 be invited to take a walk to the Cemetery [Campo Santo), in 

 order to promenade there among c}q)ress alleys, and pre- 

 tentious-looking memorials of the departed. 



The Campo Santo is situated on one of the rising grounds 

 behind the city, and with its clumps of trees and flower-plots, 

 looks in fact much more like a promenade-garden than a 

 grave-j^ard. Each Catholic fraternity (hermandad) has its own 

 place assigned it for interment of the dead. Beautiful and 

 costly monuments are raised over some of the recent graves, 

 like so many testimonies in marble of the influence exercised 

 even upon the resting-places of the dead, by the accumulated 

 wealth of the last twenty years. Close beside tlie Catholic 



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