. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . terest they accept on loans is fifty per cent,and they not only use Uie arlicles left as pledges, but even let themon hire. One old usurer has been known to wear a pair of shoeson which he had advanced a piastre at four reales per month in-terest. In a recent sitting of the legislature, when a bill was presentedfor organizing the importation of Chinese coolies on a large scale,a deputy, who had a great antipathy to the whole race, rose andsaid : Gentlemen, why the devil does anybody wan
. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . terest they accept on loans is fifty per cent,and they not only use Uie arlicles left as pledges, but even let themon hire. One old usurer has been known to wear a pair of shoeson which he had advanced a piastre at four reales per month in-terest. In a recent sitting of the legislature, when a bill was presentedfor organizing the importation of Chinese coolies on a large scale,a deputy, who had a great antipathy to the whole race, rose andsaid : Gentlemen, why the devil does anybody want to bring-amongst us more apes of that sort? they are so ugly that they willdestroy the beauty of our pure race (the speaker was an Indian ofthe Mountains), and so corrupt that they are already refused aspatients in the hospitals. If we must have foreigners, let them bewhites; hut not Englishmen, because they are not Christians\ Afterall, it would be better to have Bozal negroes from Africa, for weknow them well; they have been brought up with us; they have thesame religion and they speak our Fashionable Creole Negro. flO LIMA. The native tvpes are not exactly the same in all the villages of themountains, and these again difTer from the villages on the difference may he attrihnted in part to climatic influences. Thediversitv of character and customs is also very perceptible betweenthe natives of the mountain and (hose of the coast, o^ing to thefact that the latter are nearer to, and brought into more frequentcontact ^vitll, the nihabitants of the capital, ^vhich they frequentlyvisit to sell their agricultural or manufactured products. Lima re-ceives every year a very considerable supply of fruit, fcnvls, etc.,fiom the nearer villages on the coast both north and south.
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