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of the day. Before we dined, I was invited 

 to the bathing-place, when I witnessed the 

 mode in which the fashionable people from 

 Lima take their pleasure in the sea. A number 

 of cane huts are erected on piles of wood, close 

 to the water, with partitions between the dress- 

 ing-rooms. But the cane-work of these is so 

 open, as necessarily to invite, as well as to gra- 

 tify the curiosity of Peeping Tom,^^ who may 

 here feast his eyes without the least apprehen- 

 sion of distressing Godiva. After undress- 

 ing, both men and women put on a loose blue 

 bathing-robe, and a straw hat ; and in this trim 

 they march forth from the hut. I was pre- 

 ceded by a young Lima lady in this attire, who, 

 not being well able to withstand the buffeting 

 of the waves, agitated by a strong trade-wind, 

 was supported by an Indian man, without any 

 other garment than a small apron, tied round 



