Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities . n of a new museum. But my imagina-tion of these was sadly disappointed. On its wallsare hanging portraits of all the Viceroys who for-merly governed in Lima. Outside of these the collec-tion of other objects was confined to a few hundredbirds, some animal monstrosities of double-headedcalves, et voila t^tt. The dozen or two specimensof prehistoric crockery-ware, that it had contained,were already sent to the Exhibition Palace, andthe whole was not worth the cost of being re-moved. I could not help reflecting on this as acogent illustrat
Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities . n of a new museum. But my imagina-tion of these was sadly disappointed. On its wallsare hanging portraits of all the Viceroys who for-merly governed in Lima. Outside of these the collec-tion of other objects was confined to a few hundredbirds, some animal monstrosities of double-headedcalves, et voila t^tt. The dozen or two specimensof prehistoric crockery-ware, that it had contained,were already sent to the Exhibition Palace, andthe whole was not worth the cost of being re-moved. I could not help reflecting on this as acogent illustration of the absence of national taste,to say nothing of national pride, in the city ofLima,—where the large Exhibition Palace couldbe filled with archaeological proofs of the ancientglories of Peru, without going farther than six toeight miles outside the city walls. At the Museum of the Faculty of Medicine thereare not more than from twenty-two to twenty-fourskulls of Indians, most of them being abnormal,and the majority picked up by Senor Raimondy in. BKIDGE OF LIMA. [Vol. I. p. 320. CIIAI. \V. I TNCA PKMTSION. .521 his tniv(>ls. A \rw wooden idols roinplctc llic coii-l(Mils IIktc. S(mioi* Don iMicciio Mspnntoso lias ilicr:ii(\s|, sjK»(im(Mis of pol l(My-WMrr lluif iwi) to boloimd in Ijin:i, ns well ;is (jlolli, mikI oinani(Mifalart work, willi i^old nnd silver cups, ;iiid *S(^ wvr \:iln;d)le Ixhmuso iho owner knows fromwhoiico thry all canu». It is not so, liowover, Avitlia very larp^o collection left by tlio lat(^ Sc^norFcrroyras, fis the locale wlienc(^ any of tlicm wasobtained is not kno^vn. Another lot is in the pos-session of Senor Ciindamarin, formerly Postmaster-General in Lima. A doctor, whose name I forget,and who lives, in the Plaza de Bolivar, has some fewmore. AVith these I believe I have exhausted thecatalogue of holders of the ancient treasures of persistence of the Inca delusion is stillcarried out in Peru, after a fashion that may besa
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