LIMA. 



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bathing village, we determined to go there yes- 

 terday morning. 



Peru is in a sad and desperate state of civil 

 warfare. Bands of robbers have rendered every 

 approach to Lima unsafe. The Callao stage 

 was robbed yesterday by a party of men who 

 are termed Monteneros. They ride about well 

 armed, and pretend to espouse the cause of 

 the legitimate government which has been 

 lately overthrown ; their real object being to 

 plunder every body under pretence of levying 

 contributions for the defence of the state. 

 Thinking it possible we might be attacked by 

 some of these gentry, we hired especially good 

 horses and rode out of town early in the morn- 

 ing, each provided with a double-barrel gun.. 

 We reached Chorillos in less than an hour, 

 without molestation, and went to breakfast at 

 a branch hotel to the one we had left at Lima, 



