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Mania, singular case of, . . . . 386 

 Manners. See Customs, 

 Ma«oa/HC?jaw5, their particular beliefj 408 



» total miscarriage of 



the mission* established among 



them, 410 



ManufaSiures of Feru, 5 



Masato, an intoxicating drink, how- 

 prepared by the uncivilized In- 

 dians, 280 (note), and , . . . 406 

 Mausolea, ancient, in Peru, . . 14 



Medicine, cultivated by the Yncas, 18 



Menacho, Juan Perez, a learned 

 Peruvian, biographical sketch of, 378 



Meono, Donna Josepha, the lady of 

 the viceroy of Buenos-Ayres, 

 patronizes a project: of inland dis- 

 covery, 330 



Mercurio Peruana (Peruvian Mer- 

 cury), a very interesting periodi- 

 cal work, the degree of encou- 

 ragement bestowed on it in Peru, 

 359 (note) 



Metallurgy, not hitherto well under- 



stood in Peru, .. .. ..130 



Metas, or compulsory service of the 



Indians in the royal mines of Peru, 78 

 Meteor, curious one described, . . SQO 

 Meteorological Observations made at 

 Lima in 179 1, ^nd a part of 1792, 

 ■with comparative estimates, by 

 the Editor, of the respedive tem- 

 peratures of the air of that city 



and of London, 397 



Mildness of the government of the 



Yncas, .. .. , 18 



Mines, the principal source of the 



jiches of Peru, . . . . 5 



481 



PAG I. 



Mines, enumeration of, . . . , 58 

 ■ their produce, 60 



-— — those of Pasco, so highly 



celebrated, how discovered, 61 



— — — many produdive ones have 

 been abandoned in Peru, . . . , 130 



Miners, their condition, in Peru, 70 



■ ■ at the mercy of those who 

 make the advances in specie, . . 7^ 



Missions of Caxamarquilla, account 

 of, 40S 



Missionaries, their success in pro- 

 pagating the doftrines of Christi- 

 anity among the Indians of Peru, 

 and the sacrifices they have volun- 

 tarily made, 404. 



Mohares, or Agoreros, Indian char- 

 latans, account of, 275 



Monlis, their numbers greatly dimi- 

 nished in Peru, , I4p 



Monuments of ancient Peru, vestiges 

 of, 10 



N 



Naturalists, the early ones who 

 visited Peru, made but small ad- 

 vances in knowledge, . . , . 45 



Navigation of Peru, much limited, 7 



Negroes, first conveyed to America 



in 1510, 89 



the immense numbers of, 



imported into the Ameri- 

 can continent, . . . . 123 



cruelties to which they are 



subjected, 124 



residing in the district of 



Lima, their public congre- 

 gations, and other usages, 2g 1 



3 Q Negroes, 



