LIMA. 



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The morning after we anchored at Callao 

 I breakfasted with Commodore Mason, who 

 kindly offered me the hospitaUty of the Blonde 

 frigate, which with the American ship Brandy- 

 wine, and a French sloop, are the only vessels 

 of war in the port. 



I landed with McLean, after breakfast, at 

 Callao, and we were conveyed in a coach-and- 

 four, driven by a drunken Yorkshireman to 

 the ^^Cityof Kings.''^ 



The situation of Lima is very magnificent. 

 The city, as seen from the Callao roads, ap- 

 pears surrounded with gardens, out of which 

 rise the steeples and cupolas of its nume- 

 rous churches and convents. Behind are the 

 gigantic Andes towering above, and seem- 



* Lima was once called Lia Ciudad de los Reyes ; at pre- 

 sent it is characterized as " Ml cielo de las mugeres, ei 

 purgatorio de los Homhres, y el Infierno de los Burros T 



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