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ROBBERIES AND MURDERS. 



murders and robberies every day with impunity. 

 During my short stay^ three murders were com- 

 mitted^ and innumerable robberies. Mrs. Wal- 

 ker, who kept the inn^ was stopped on the Cal- 

 lao road^ in company with a gentleman, by two 

 robbers, who stripped them of every thing, and 

 taking the gentleman's horse from him, he was 

 obliged to mount up behind the lady, and in 

 that situation they entered Lima. Mr. Kelly, 

 the vice-consul, was stopped by two robbers, 

 who felt an inclination for his horse, when, in 

 endeavouring to make his escape from them, 

 they fired two shots at him, one of which tore 

 away his coat, and grazed the skin from under 

 his arm. 



[ went to see the body of a gentleman who 

 was dragged from his wife while in bed, and 

 murdered in the next room to her ; he had four- 

 teen stabs in his body, and appeared to have 

 made a desperate resistance^ for several chairs 

 were broken, and parts of them covered with 

 blood and hair. It appears he used them to 



