. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . 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
. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . 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 act, and banishes every feeling ofdevotion in the spectators. Perhaps our children will witness thereform of these abuses and others of a like nature, which we hear-tily desire to see at once suppressed. The authorities have alreadywisely forbidden the negroes to discharge fire-arms during the pro-cessions, as was the custom ^iBocquin \\\\ iaip [. C^rdc -Sc LIMA. 8:t All the juntas or asseinhlies here enumerated bej^in under thecover of religion to end in others having amusement for their onlyobject. In several streets of the capital the negroes of whom wespeak have houses or lodges (sixteen in number, and called rofra-dias) ^^hich are their rallying points on festival days. Each tribehas llie sole use of one of these places for its meetings, and someof the more numerous have two or three. With money collectedfrom among themselves, they buy ground to build these lodges,and have only to pay a very trifling tax for them. The corporal of each caste or nation is the president of thejunta, and enforces the strictest etiquette as to seats, which are allclassed according to seniority. The Bozales negroes, though patientunder the rudest field labour, almost inditferent as to the qualityof their f
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