064 ^^^D'^g^ ^'f ^^^^ Novara. 



that days elapsed ere goods, paid for, were delivered out of 

 bond. The warehouse charge is very small, and consists 

 chiefly of stamp-duties, which are imposed on the money 

 paid for goods. The trade of Callao is apparently on the 

 increase, and, considering the productiveness of the country, 

 would be even greater, were internal order restored, when 

 peace and confidence would follow in its train. 



As I had to prosecute my journey northwards by the next 

 steamer, I hastened on to Lima, so as to satisfy my curiosity 

 as to this the most important city of Peru in modern days. 

 A few hours after my arrival in Callao, I found myself on the 

 road to the " City of the Kings."'* Only a few years back 

 the journey from Callao to Lima, though only six English 

 miles, was an exceedingly arduous and even dangerous im- 

 dertaking. The road lay through a shadeless desert of deep 

 sand, between uncultivated fields and low scrubs, and was 

 absolutely unsafe owing to attacks of robbers. Now it is a 

 frequent excursion, a tolerably good railroad performing the 

 distance in about half an hour. 



By the kindness of Mr. Wilhelm Brauns, the Consul- 

 General of Hamburg, and head of the distinguished English 

 house Huth, Grlining, and Co.,t to whom I brought letters of 



* The day on which Lima was founded by Pizarro was the 6th January, 1534, 

 which according to the Cathohc calendar is that dedicated to the Three Kings of 

 Cologne, whence, in conformity with the religious customs of the period, the city was 

 named " Ciudad de los Reyes " (City of the Kings). 



t I feel it a pleasant duty to express here publicly how much I am indebted to the 

 representatives of this celebrated firm in the different ports of South America, and to 



