. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . sks of brandv. The principal business of the carretoneros was that of movinghousehold goods in town and country. It was admitted that no ar-ticle of furniture ever arrived at its destination without sufferingsome damage. Thence arose a common proverb at Lima: de quetres mudanzas de domicilio equivalen a un incendio (three removalsare as bad as a fire), because the strongest furniture cannot resistthree journeys, in a carreton. The corporation of carretoneros met once a week to discuss t
. Lima; or, Sketches of the capital of Peru, historical, statistical, administrative, commercial and moral . sks of brandv. The principal business of the carretoneros was that of movinghousehold goods in town and country. It was admitted that no ar-ticle of furniture ever arrived at its destination without sufferingsome damage. Thence arose a common proverb at Lima: de quetres mudanzas de domicilio equivalen a un incendio (three removalsare as bad as a fire), because the strongest furniture cannot resistthree journeys, in a carreton. The corporation of carretoneros met once a week to discuss theimportant affairs of their body. AVhat gave rise to frequent discus-sions was the tariff for conveyance. Among the number were certaineconomists so clever that they succeeded in solving the followingproblem : How the carretonero should gain within the year the va-lue of the mule and cart, cover the cost of keeping both driver and I. IMA. <87 animal, and, after paying the daily sum due to his master, have inhand at the end of tlie year a capital of twenty piastres towardspurchasing liis own Cnrretonero (carrier). The majority of the carretoneros, like most of the aguadoref;, Avereslaves who lived away from their masters and disposed of all theirtime on paying to their owner so much per day. The rate was cal-culated at one real per day on each hundred piastres the slave hadcost. Thus a slave who had cost two hundred piastres paid two realsa day for liberty to work on his own account. Many journaleros (slaves at so much a day) obtained their libera-tion in a few^ years and the first desire of a freed negro was to be-come in his turn the master of other necjroes. At Lima, twentv vearsago, might be seen a oegress cake-seller who had four slaves tocarrv her baskets. The heaviest punishment the alcalde of the carretoneros inflictedon the members of the corporation was that of the area (bow), whichconsisted in binding the culprit firmly to one of the wheels ofhis cart. S
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