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to be sure of the safety of their contents. 

 When we were leaving the convent^ we thought 

 we could well dispense with his services^ and 

 were for dropping his acquaintance^ at the same 

 time that we dropped a piece of money into his 

 cap^ but he still insisted upon accompanying us 

 in our walk to the Almeda. By the way^ he in- 

 duced us to enter a shop where they sold a 

 beverage resembling the very worst beer^ which 

 he did not relish the less because we paid for it. 

 The Alameda^ which we reached by a stone 

 bridge^ over the river Rimac^ as broad here as 

 the Maypocho^ is well planted with poplars^ and 

 extends along the banks. On one side of this 

 promenade is a wall^ on which there is a paint- 

 ings representing the strangest idea imaginable. 

 It is called El mundo al revez (the world upside 

 down) ; where the order of nature being in- 

 verted^ horses are seen riding on men^s backs, 

 dogs are hanging men by the heels^ and a 



