. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . festival of Quasimodo (the Sunday after Easter), the pro-cession o[ Nuesiro A^no starts from all the parish-churches andchapels of ease. On no day of the year do the streets of Lima pre-sent a more animated appearance. The lirst procession leaves theSafj/rario he^ore six in the morning, the streets having been pre-viously watered and strewed with flowers. The ladies are already intheir balconies, from which they scatter perfumes when E/ Santi-sitHO passes before them. As Ihe processions
. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . festival of Quasimodo (the Sunday after Easter), the pro-cession o[ Nuesiro A^no starts from all the parish-churches andchapels of ease. On no day of the year do the streets of Lima pre-sent a more animated appearance. The lirst procession leaves theSafj/rario he^ore six in the morning, the streets having been pre-viously watered and strewed with flowers. The ladies are already intheir balconies, from which they scatter perfumes when E/ Santi-sitHO passes before them. As Ihe processions of all the parish-churches set off at different hours, Ihe streets are fdled with themtill three or four in the afternoon. On this occasion, Nuestro Atnovisits all convalescent patients who desire the consolation of re-ceiving him. A few years l»ack the Quasimodo processions, as well as those of LIMA. ill Corpus Chrisli were followed by ])ands of mummers dressed lo imi-tate demons, wliile otiiers not less hideous and ridiculous, appearedas Gkintfi and Papa-luievos. The former were colossal pasteboard. Giants ami Papa-huevos. images, carried by a negro concealed inside, and the latter wereboys wearing masks in the shape of a head which covered all theirbody but the legs. However, while the country was still a Spanish colony, manypersons protested against these exhibitions, which, under the pre-text of honouring the Divinity, were offensive to public morality,and turned religion itself into ridicule; but the abuse was tolerated,and we may even say authorized, by the viceroys, for they took nosteps to put an end to the barbarous practices introduced by theirpredecessors. Among the curious documents handed down from those goodold times, we find a petition, addressed to the government of Lima ,12 • LIMA. by tlie priest of a parish in the capital, against a decree issued in1817 forbidding the presence of giants in the ()//^.s7>??or/o worlhv priest propounds his
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