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Written by Lady in South-America, to her


Friend in the United States.
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Written by Lady in South-Amerca, to her


Friend in the United States.


The sensation which every stranger would
feel upon first entering Lima, would be dis
appointment, for there is now no external
splendour, and the houses being built as
have described, without windows to the
street, it has gloomy appearance but ev :.
cry thing is quite unique, and the first time
I visited that famous city, l kept constantly
in the street. to gaze upon the assemblage of
strange-looking persons and things; ladies
moving every direction, masked by the Saya
y-Manto, one eye peeping out of the opening;
others in carriages, the bodies of which are
exactly like the Boston BOBBY Huts, "a kind
of a large, close sleigh used there) painted
light blue or pink, with landscapes or fig
ures of animals, and covered with gliding !;
this machine is hung between an enorm-
Gus pair of wheels, and is drawn by two
mules; on one OF which the driver sits upon
a saddle so large that it seems of itself too
great burden for the poor beast; but no
Thought, save to over. load and ill-treat the
animals, ever enters Spaniard's mind, and
| arm often shocked to witness their cruelty
and inhumanity. The saddles are very
large and covered with two or three sheep
SKINS, the long wool remaining, and dyed
various colours, and to those who travel in