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LIIVIA. 



CHAPTER V. 



LIMA. 



Visit to the consul — Political highwaymen — Visit to a 

 fashionable watering-place — Hammock swinging — 

 Gambling propensities of the natives of Lima — 

 Bathing — Irrigation — Coolness of the air of Lima, 

 and its cause — The Lima ladies — Singular costume — 

 Cause of the late revolution at Lima — A soi-disant 

 Napoleon — Return to Lima — Description of the city 

 — The Plaza — Indian sagacity — Palace of Pizarro — 

 Convent — A priest — The Alameda — The world turned 

 topsyturvy — Female smokers. 



March 23. — Having received an invitation 

 to visit Colonel Wilson^ the consul-general^ at 

 his country-house which is at Chorillos^ a sea- 



