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whole empire of Peru to be lying stuck away in an 

 obscure vault ! a greater mockery on human greatness 

 I never beard of. Expencle Hannibalem ; quot libras ? 

 occurred to my mind with singular aptness. Whatever 

 the value of such a fact may be to point a morale it is 

 nevertheless a disgrace to the Peruvians that they cannot 

 find a suitable monument to their great ancestor^ when 

 their churches and plazas are filled with preposterous 

 pictures and statues to all sorts of santos and patriots. 

 There are several other very fine churches in Lima^ one — 

 I think that of St. Pedro — being one mass of carving 

 outside. 



The Exhibition was going on at the time I was there ; 

 it was held in a large and very handsome building half a 

 mile out of the town^ and contained a very creditable 

 show of productions. Some of the specimens of rice 

 and sugar grown in Peru struck me as being very fine ; 

 and the machinery department was completely filled with 

 exhibits from the principal English firms. The finest 

 thing in the whole Exhibition^ however^ to my taste^ was 

 a really splendid picture^ life-size, representing the lying 

 in state of Atahualpa, the last of the Incas. Atahualpa 

 is stretched out in his robes, and occupies the right 

 centre of the picture ; at the door on the left hand two 

 of the Daughters of the Sun are endeavouring to force 

 their way in to where their beloved Inca is lying, while 

 another has fallen down, overcome by grief and terror. 

 A priest, who had been engaged in reading the requiem 

 over the body, looks up from his book to see what 

 the disturbance is, with a surprised and indignant air; 

 the expression in this man's face is marvellous. Pizarro, 

 in his cavalier dress, plumed hat, and his hand on the 

 hilt of his sword, angrily points to the weeping women, 



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