. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . dily understood that the aguador who possessed adonkey was of a higher class than those who went on foot, eitherbecause a larger capital was necessary to set up in business, orbecause, being perched on his ass, he was in a more elevated po-sition. The aguador on foot required only a leather apron, while themo\xui(i.(\. aguador had to first obtain his donkey, then a pad com-posed of a number of thicknesses of stout linen covered with piecesof cloth of some bright colour, panniers to hold
. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . dily understood that the aguador who possessed adonkey was of a higher class than those who went on foot, eitherbecause a larger capital was necessary to set up in business, orbecause, being perched on his ass, he was in a more elevated po-sition. The aguador on foot required only a leather apron, while themo\xui(i.(\. aguador had to first obtain his donkey, then a pad com-posed of a number of thicknesses of stout linen covered with piecesof cloth of some bright colour, panniers to hold his pair of watercasks, a little bell to announce that his casks were full, a long stick,which he made use of to vault on to his donkeys back, and lastly a (ij Fine paid on nomination to any office or functions. LIMA. 179 cows rib to tickle the hide of his steed when it did not move alonirfast enough. The extremities of the stick showed to which categorythe agiiador belonged; the ferrule at one end and the forked ironhandle at the other represented nothing less than the dictatorialpower of the -^.^r^z^^^^i^-^ Mounted aguador. The aguador on foot required, as we have already said, nothingmore than a leather apron; the mounted aguador wore, and stillwears, the same apron, but beneath is a white or coloured shirtmore or less artistically ornamented, according- to the pecuniaryresources of the individual. The aguador always carries the scapu-lary of Our Lady of Carmel, and a leathern purse, in which he for-merly kept the ticket showing his exemption from the conscrip-tion, and the amount of his days receipts; at present, the pursecontains the money only. That the ass is an intelligent animal; that by means of trainingand the stick he sometimes attains the highest degree of knowledgewithin reach of his species, is a fact proved by examples in all agesand by the writings of numerous historians. From the time of Ba- 180 LIMA. laams ass down to that of Chorrillos(l), history
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