Identifier: aroundaboutsouth00vinc (find matches)
Title: Around and about South America
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Vincent, Frank, 1848- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e in Lima visit this church to worshipon an occasion believed to be especially favorable for remis-sion of sin and admission of salvation. The convent inclos-ure was filled with a motley crowd of mendicants and poorpeople, who were mostly women. They carried tin cups andbasins, and what appeared very like discarded tomato-cans, tobe filled with food by the friars. In the street before thechurch were the stands of a dozen or so sellers of chicha andother native drinks, fruits, candies, etc. Hacks and tram-carswere continually bringing new arrivals, all clad in their bestclothes, and a regular Spanish fete was made out of a simplereligious ceremony. The Panteon, or general cemetery of Lima, is situated ashort distance beyond the eastern limits of the city. It isnot large, and has few trees or flowers, but contains manybeautiful monuments, nearly all of them of marble. At theentrance is a chapel, beneath the large dome of which reclinesupon a high pedestal a white-marble dead Christ. The
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LIMA. 63 greater number by far of the dead lie in mural niches, as isthe custom in Quito. Many thousands of niches are ar-ranged in long rows of five tiers each, with narrow pathsbetween. A few vaults are seen, and quite a number ofmonuments, but no graves, no burials directly in the earth, aswith us. CHAPTER VIII. GLIMPSES OF THE PERUVIANS. Lima has two public gardens—one especially devoted tobotanical collections, and the other to zoology and botany.The latter is situated at the extreme southeastern angle ofthe city, upon a level plain. It is not large, but contains asplendid assortment of tropical trees, plants, and flowers, withfountains, statues, rockeries, and paths extending in everydirection. The whole is surrounded by a high iron fence,with a number of splendid gateways in the style of the Arcde Triomphe in Paris. Opposite one of these gates is a finemarble statue of Columbus and the Indian, elevated upona granite pedestal. This was set up in 1853, and dedicatedto the memor

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