CONTENTS. 



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principle — Fears of revolution — Visit to an American 

 frigate— Transfer to the Tyrian— Voyage to Pay ta 1 04 



CHAPTER VII. 

 Arrival at Payta — Curiosity of the inhabitants for poli- 

 tical news — Description of Payta— Its commerce — 

 No rain for two years — Mode of receiving water and 

 provisions — No insects — Relations of Payta with the 

 United States, &c. — A tedious voyage — Bird-cage 

 houses — The aboriginal race — Treaty with a whaler — 

 Visit to a female politician and her daughters — Resi- 

 dence and family of the American consul — The envi- 

 rons of Payta — The Peruvian Indians — Their reforma- 

 tion under Manco Capac — Tribes near the Amazon — 

 Earthquakes — Vegetable and mineral wealth of Peru— 

 The paper-maker and paper-destroyer . . 131 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 Agreement with an American captain — Temple's Travels 

 in Peru — The gauchos of Tucuman — Cheap living 

 — Rain after two years' drought — Curious appearance 

 of the shore — Voyage to the Pearl Islands — A calm — 

 An English Whaler — News from Otaheite and the 

 Galapagos Islands — Amusements at sea — Arrival at 

 the Isla del Rey — The Pearl Islands — Right of pearl- 

 fishery vested in Rundell and Bridge — Failure of the 

 speculation — An Indian village — Escape from the 

 Sharks — Arrival at Panama . . . . 171 



CHAPTER IX. 

 Description of Panama and environs — The consul, Mr. 

 Russell — Primitive fare — Further description of Pa- 

 nama — Its trade and inhabitants — The native females 

 and their costume — Decadence of the city — Bathing — 

 Tide — Commencement of the rainy season — Ague — 

 Old Panama, built by Pizarro — Profusion and splen- 

 dour of the trees and plants — Birds — English cemetery 



