. The Spanish-American republics . om is in a court-yard dotted with flower-beds and shaded with lux-uriant climbing plants,between whose leaves thesunlight filters. On thefirst floor, around a bal-cony, are the second and a third pa-tio are similarly arranged,and would delight an artistin search of picturesquebits, the more so as one ofthe menials is a Chinamanas ugly as a netske, anothera negress, and others semi-Indians, Cholos and Cho-litas with copper skins,black, lank hair, and im-bruted, moony countenances. There are no bells to call these indo-lent creatures; you stand outsi
. The Spanish-American republics . om is in a court-yard dotted with flower-beds and shaded with lux-uriant climbing plants,between whose leaves thesunlight filters. On thefirst floor, around a bal-cony, are the second and a third pa-tio are similarly arranged,and would delight an artistin search of picturesquebits, the more so as one ofthe menials is a Chinamanas ugly as a netske, anothera negress, and others semi-Indians, Cholos and Cho-litas with copper skins,black, lank hair, and im-bruted, moony countenances. There are no bells to call these indo-lent creatures; you stand outside your door and clap your hands inSpanish fashion, and then wait patiently to be waited on. In realitythis picturesque establishment proved to be a poor and irritatinghostelry; but with the aid of those two talismanic words, so consolingin all Hispano-American countries, caramba and paciencia, I managedto exist. The fat old French washer-woman who directed the hotelseemed proud of it, and she informed me that Sarah Bernhardt, who. CHOLO TYPES. IMPRESSIONS OF PERU. l8; bad occupied the front rooms towards the plaza during her visit toLima, was enchanted with the place; so, of course, I had nothing tosay but Caramia/ a Lima is picturesquely situated on the banks of the Rimac amountain torrent, at the end of a valley whose enclosing hills rise onone side of the town. The streets run at right angles for the mostpart, the main thoroughfares being longitudinal. The centre ofmovement is the Plaza Mayor, which is planted with trees, and has a
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