Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities . ate. For nearly two days, adds , * we lay on the hills, without coveringand without food (his wife, himself, and sevenchildren), in a constant state of alarm, as theshocks of earthquake were for some days in-cessant. I must confess that this is not a very comfortingstyle of thing, to be made acquainted with, onfirst landing in a country that may be ones homefor an indefinite number of years. This earthquake was sensibly felt along thewhole coast, although at no place were its devas-tations so palpable as at Arica. Iquique suffe
Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities . ate. For nearly two days, adds , * we lay on the hills, without coveringand without food (his wife, himself, and sevenchildren), in a constant state of alarm, as theshocks of earthquake were for some days in-cessant. I must confess that this is not a very comfortingstyle of thing, to be made acquainted with, onfirst landing in a country that may be ones homefor an indefinite number of years. This earthquake was sensibly felt along thewhole coast, although at no place were its devas-tations so palpable as at Arica. Iquique sufferedvery much, so also did Mejillones, Pisagua, Ho,and Chala, as well as nearly all the other towns ofthe coast. It went inland to Tacna, interior toArica, and northward to Arcquipa, the secondcity in the Republic. It likewise proceeded far-ther north, beyond Callao and Lima, at both ofwhich places it was sensibly felt, although withcomparatively little damage. One of the most remarkable incidents of thisearth(]uako was the heaving u]), in some place not. CHAP. IV. I SVMIIOIJCAI, OF IMSII WOKSIFII. 66 very i)\v IVom Aiicji, ofa mmihcr ol I xxlics, buriedill <ho usual style of iiilornioiit iiloii*^ tliis coast—iiainoly, tlii^ s(jualtintjf |)()sturi, in wliicli tho legs arefioxed on llic jx^lvis, and tho knoos honl in to thechin. Thoy wore covered, as usual, with clotli,and padded with cotton fh)ck. They liad, as olso-wliere, one-halt of a bivalve, about the ordinarysize of an oyster, attached to tlie palm of eaclihand. Tho usual stylo of funereal accessories inheads of Indian corn, beans, fishing-nets, needlesfor making the same, and bits of cloth, were like-wise thrown up. From some of the skulls theeyes had been extracted and fishes eyes put intheir place. Of these latter—the eyes of thecuttle-fish—a number were given to me byMr. Bracey R,. Wilson, our vice-consul at Callao,who had been many years resident at Arica,and was intimate with all its bearings. Thisputting of
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