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Title: A sketcher's tour round the world
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Elwes, Robert Hullmandel & Walton
Subjects: Voyages around the world Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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, however, on acloser inspection, as many of the buildings are of adobie, orunburnt bricks (so-called from the Arabic word), and someof the ornaments and urns, where broken, show that they areonly fremes of wicker-work covered with plaster. Thestreets are at right angles, but have few other pretensionsto regularity. They look oriental, and put me much inmind of some of the streets in Grand Cairo, the houseshaving projecting windows of lattice-work as in the east.The buildings are flat-roofed, and some of the old ones,built by the Spanish grandees, are handsomely ornamentedwith carved stonework; but Lima has declined fearfullyfrom its former magnificence. Liberty seems to have ruinedthese countries, and of all governments that of a republicseems least adapted to them. They are always fighting andquarrelling, and the six republics, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru,Bolivia, Ecuador, and Mexico, usually average more than arevolution amongst them every year, and are often thescene of two at once.
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I—\ i—l OR -P o NATIVE COSTUMES. 167 Lima is the dearest place I ever visited, partly on accountof the idleness of the people, and partly from the formerabundance of money; but now the old high families aregetting gradually poorer, and the modern ones think ofnothing but dress and gambling, and do not get rich. Thecarriage of everything is excessively high. A cotton manu-factory lately put up at the back of the town, was broughtout in pieces from the United States, and cost as muchto bring it from Callao to the city, as it did from New Yorkto Callao. In housekeeping, a dollar goes about as far asa shilling in England. But the provisions, I must say, areexcellent, and the beef and poultry are better than any Iobtained elsewhere in South America. The population of Lima is very mixed, and in the streetspresent a most motley appearance. This is caused by thethree races, Spaniards, Indians and negroes, each of whichhas crossed and intermingled with the other. The costumeof the Indian w

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