Visit Lima — Curious Municipal Onlinance. 365 



Introduction, and who was most kindly in waiting for me. I 

 was speedily and pleasantly conveyed from the station in 

 Lima, to take up my quarters in his house till I took my 

 leave. Owing to this fortunate event, I found myself unex- 

 pectedly brought into the very thick of the very best German 

 society. Nowhere in the course of many years of travel in 

 various countries, all over the globe, did I meet with more 

 cordial hospitality, or a more delightful reception, than dur- 

 ing my 19 days' stay in the " City of the Kings." 



On our way from the station to the house of Mr. Brauns, 

 I remarked that the houses in every part of the city that we 

 passed were painted with variegated stripes, and heard, to my 

 intense astonishment, that, in consequence of a recent decree of 

 the Government, every householder in each quarter was or- 

 dered, with a view to facilitating the identification of their 

 houses, to paint them of a colour corresponding with the 

 coloured official plans of the city ! Accordingly in one 

 quarter all the houses were green, in another yellow, in a 

 third wdiite, in a fourth reddish, and in a fifth sky-blue. As 

 in all Spanish-American cities exposed to earthquakes, most 

 of the houses in Lima also are but one storey high. The larger 

 buildings are constructed of sun-dried bricks or fire clay, the 

 smaller of cane set up double, with the space between filled 

 up with clay, and the whole whitewashed. Their most 

 singular feature is the flat roofs, which consist of a layer of 



the head of the house in London, for the kind and generous manner in which this 

 gentleman endeavoured to facilitate and advance the objectsi had in view. 



