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woman. The females here are remarkable for 

 their dignity of carriage, handsome features, and 

 delicate feet. 



I learned from the consul the particulars of 

 the revolution which has just occurred at Lima, 

 and has thrown the whole country again into war 

 and confusion ; as it has often been before from 

 political causes. It seems that Obrigozo the 

 late president, being absent from the capital, 

 the commander of the fort at Callao, who had 

 recently been appointed there by him to quell 

 a mutiny, and had shot sixteen rebellious sol- 

 diers, took occasion to act the mutineer himself. 

 He marched his men, about three hundred, into 

 Lima, frightened the deputy-governor and mi- 

 nistry, who fled from the town at his approach, 

 and declared himself Chief and Regenerator 

 of Peru. All this took place without any 

 attempt on the part of the apathetic inha- 



