. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . teem,I send thee my heartAnd also this little negro. 1 would fain have the talentAs I have the good willTo make known to thee,With this sweet little negro^My fondness, dear gossip. ii 16ti LIMA. AVc know not what pleasure can be felt in visiting this gloomyal)ode of the dead, where people oujiht to go only to shed a tear orbreathe a sigh to the memory of a relation or a friend. Bnt the factis certain, that sorrow is the feeling least apparent on the counte-nances of the visitors, and th
. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . teem,I send thee my heartAnd also this little negro. 1 would fain have the talentAs I have the good willTo make known to thee,With this sweet little negro^My fondness, dear gossip. ii 16ti LIMA. AVc know not what pleasure can be felt in visiting this gloomyal)ode of the dead, where people oujiht to go only to shed a tear orbreathe a sigh to the memory of a relation or a friend. Bnt the factis certain, that sorrow is the feeling least apparent on the counte-nances of the visitors, and that their minds are occupied with any-thing rather than the thoughts of eternity. In the cemetery, as inany other public place, the young gallant pays his court to the fair,and the coquet endeavours to engage the attention of admirers,by displaying to the best advantage her personal charms and herelegant toilet. There is nearly always a ridiculous side even to the most seriousand solemn of human affairs. The ludicrous abuses which havecrept into many religious acts will often excite a smile. On All \ \ V. Priest soliciting alms for souls in Purgatory. Soulsday, the cemetery of Lima is frequented by numbers of priestsand young monks canchudores who make a trade of reciting the res-ponses for Ihe souls of the dead. They are not ashamed to oppose LIMA. i03 each other as briskly as the lowest petty dealers. If one offers hisprayers for a real, another ^Yill take half a real, and some will eventhrow in three for a real. The Indians of both sexes, who thinktheir relatives souls may be delivered from purgatory by abundantprayers, are the customers who give most employment to the jawsand tongues of the c«/^c//fff/o/^s. According to the proverb : Como valapaga, va hi ohra (literally: as goes the pay, so goes the work), theycurtail their prayers to the brief formula : Ne recorcleris HooI hoo!... in pace, amen. During the evening of All Saints and the whole day of Al
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