I04 A VOYAGE TQ Book VII. 



-fing all kinds of difhes whether of flefli or fifli, oil 

 being only ufed in fallads and the like. This method 

 of cookery is faid to have had its rife when the coun- 

 try afforded no oil, and has been continued to the 

 prefent time, notwithilanding it is now produced in 

 great quantities. Antonia de Rivero, an inhabitant 

 of Lima in the year 1660, planted the firft olive-tree 

 ever feen in Peru. 



From the mountains, are often fent by way of 

 prefenr, frozen calves ; being killed there, and left 

 two or three days on the heaths to freeze ; after 

 which they are carried to Lima, where they may be 

 kept any time required, without the leaft tendency to 

 putrefadtion. 



O F fifh there is ftill a greater variety daily 

 brought from the neighbouring parts of Chorillos, 

 Gallao, and Ancon, the Indian inhabitants of which 

 make fifliing their whole bufinefs. The moft pala- 

 table are the Corbinas, and the Pege Reyes, or 

 king's fifli ; but thofe in the greateft plenty, and at 

 the fame time very palatable, are the anchovies. 

 The Corbinas, and the king's filh, infinitely excel 

 thofe of Spain ; the latter is alfo remarkable for its 

 fize, being generally fix or feven Paris inch-es in length ; 

 yet even thefc are thought to be furpafied by thofe 

 caught in Buenos Ayrcs river. It is a fait water fifh, 

 but very little diiterent from that caught in the rivers 

 of Spain. The river of Lima affords a fort of prawn 

 two or three inches in length, but thofe fhould rather 

 Jbe called Cray-fifh. 



The whole coafts abound with fuch fhcals of an- 

 chovies, as exceed all comparifon^ and befides the 

 vafl quantities caught by fifhermen, they are the 

 chief food of innumerable flights of birds, with 

 which all thofe iflands abound, and commonly called 

 Guanoes, poffibly from the Guano or dung men- 

 tioned in the preceding chapter ; many of them are 

 indeed alcatraces, a kind of gull, though all com- 

 I ' prehended 



