. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . ings. It is now ruined, as are also the other brother-hoods established in the churches of San Sebastian, Monserrat, thechapel del Baraiillo, and another small chapel near the bridge. Thenegro and mulatto teamsters have a brotherhood at the church ofSan Agnstin for the worship of St. Nicholas. The majority of themare Creoles (born in Peru); they elect their majordomo with theintervention of the authorities, though they have no funds for themaintenance of the brotherhood but their own vo
. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . ings. It is now ruined, as are also the other brother-hoods established in the churches of San Sebastian, Monserrat, thechapel del Baraiillo, and another small chapel near the bridge. Thenegro and mulatto teamsters have a brotherhood at the church ofSan Agnstin for the worship of St. Nicholas. The majority of themare Creoles (born in Peru); they elect their majordomo with theintervention of the authorities, though they have no funds for themaintenance of the brotherhood but their own voluntary contribu-tions. The festival which they solemnize with most pomp is theSunday after Corpus Christi. All the tribes assemble on that dayfor the procession, which starts from the great Dominican carries its banner and parasol, under \vhich walks the king orthe queen, with a sceptre in the right hand and a staff or someother instrument in the left. All the rest of the nation follow, playing on noisy instruments,the majority of which make a terrible uproar. The attendant sub- 6 82 jects, who precede the kings, are dressed in every variety of fright-ful costume. Some appear us demons, or stuck all over with feathers;others are wrapped in skins to imitate bears; and others again aregot up as monsters with horns, hawks feathers, and serpents are armed with bows and arrows, clubs, and bucklers; they painttheir faces red or blue, according to the usage of their countries,and follow the procession uttering savage yells, and making mena-cing gestures, as if about to attack an enemy. The seriousness andferocious enthusiasm which they display in these scenes, may givesome idea of the barbarity with which they carried on their outrageous mummery, which might very well suit a carnivalmasquerade, appears altogether unbecoming in a religious ceremo-nial, and still more in a procession, where the least improprietyprofanes the dignity of the sacred
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