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CONTENTS. 



NOTICES OF CHILE. 



CHAPTER I. 



Arrival at Valparaiso — Bay — Appearance of the place — Landing — Town 

 — Market — Scenes in the street — Costume — Oracidn — Plaza — Cries — 

 Beggars, - - - . ,v|-..|-,r 81 



CHAPTER n. 



Society — Introduction to a Family — Costume — Furniture — Mat6 — Sing- 

 ing — Cigars — Presenting of Flowers— Leave-taking — Traits of Charac- 

 ter — A day visit — Anecdote — Tertulia on a Sunday evening — Dancing 

 — "El cu4ndo"—" La Perdi'z'*— Foreign Society, - . . 92 



CHAPTER in. 



Ride to Santiago — Mode of Travelling — Peonada — The honey palm — Car- 

 retas — Mode of descending hills — Penuelas — Throwing the lazo — A 

 bivouac — Casablanca — Posada — Mode of making butter — Bread — Cu- 

 ^sta de Zapata — Bustamente — Breakfast — Cuesta del Prado — A view — 

 Entrance to Santiago — Custom house officers — Table of Barometric 

 observations, 107 



CHAPTER IV. 



Fonda Ingl^sa and inmates — Fonda del Comercio and Fonda de la Nacion 

 — Site of Santiago — Description of the city — Its founding — Plaza — 

 Shops — Book stores — Dead bodies exposed before the prison early in 

 the morning — Siesta — Shopping at night — Ladies — Costume, - 125 



CHAPTER V. 



Tajamar — Military Academy — Militia System — San Liines — Alameda — 

 An evening visit — Card playing — National Institute — Schools — Socie- 

 dad Filarmonica — Otavario — Procession — Praying for rain — State of 



medicine and pharmacy, 133 



CHAPTER VL 



Visit Colina — Law of primogeniture — A senator — A family dinner — Face 

 of the country — Ploughing — Sowing — Baths — Friar of San Felipe — 

 Don Jose — Return to Valparaiso — Storm on the road, - - - 143 



CHAPTER Vn. 



Coquimbo bay — La Serena — Salute — Balsas — The Port — Commerce — 

 Condors — The City — Distress by drought— Society— Trade, - 152 



