. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . NEGRO WMKR-CARRIER 79 treated rather as a \vild beast tliat a rational being, he would en-dure the most cruel chastisement with the resignation of a mar-tyr. When the negroes arrived at Lima, the first thought of theirnew masters was to get them baptized and made cathohcs. All ofthem soon became fervent adorers of the Virgin del Carmen or (kiRosario, and assembled, according to their castes, in brotherhoodsto deliberate on matters connected with their public worship or onother i
. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . NEGRO WMKR-CARRIER 79 treated rather as a \vild beast tliat a rational being, he would en-dure the most cruel chastisement with the resignation of a mar-tyr. When the negroes arrived at Lima, the first thought of theirnew masters was to get them baptized and made cathohcs. All ofthem soon became fervent adorers of the Virgin del Carmen or (kiRosario, and assembled, according to their castes, in brotherhoodsto deliberate on matters connected with their public worship or onother important business. As these meetings of the negroes exhibit. Tlie^ nlil Lilllll cillfSd. many peculiar features, we will here introduce a description ofthem, which we have published in another work (1). The principal castesof negroes who serve us are ten in number:the Terranocos, Lacumes, Mandingas, Cainhandas , Carabalies ,Cangaeis, Chalas, Huarochiries, Congas;, and Misangas. These namesare not all derived from the country from which each caste origi-nally came: some are purely arbitrary, as Huarochiries, others aretaken from the name of the place where tliey first staid after land-ing, as Terranovos for instance. All these castes are subject to co~porales-mayores (corporal-majors) whom they themselves elect, andwho hold office for life. The elections take place in the chapel ofOur Lady of the Rosary, founded and maintained by the blacks in (!) statistics of Lima, 1858. 80 Ll^lA. the great Dumiriieaii cuiiveiit. The negroes who take part in thevote are (he foremen and Veinfiniatros (twenty-four) (1) of each caste^we woiikl call them Scna/nrs,
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