Identifier: twoyearsinperuwi01hutc (find matches)
Title: Two years in Peru : with exploration of its antiquities
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Hutchinson, Thomas Joseph, b. 1820
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Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Low, (and) Searle
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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Chorillos were fishermen; and, beforethe railway, the women used to carry their fish toLima on a mules or asss back. They were like-wise the general messengers of the gentry tem-porarily located here. On St. Peters Day there isalways a grand ceremony and a procession in thistown, terminating in a wooden statue of the saintbeing brought out to sea in a canoe, to inauguratethe fishing season. From the luck of the catchon this occasion is augured the good or bad con-dition of the approaching fishing time. Amongst the legends of Chorillos is one con-nected with Palm Sunday. • The history of LasBurras del Senor (the Lords she-asses), saygDr. Fuente, is well known. The first assemployed for the procession, many long yearsago, naturally became an object of veneration for Statistical, Administrative, Commercial, and floral. By Manuela Fucntes, Advocate of the Peruvian Tribunals and ^lember ofseveral learned societies. London : Triibner and Co., 00, Pater-noster Ivow, 1800. 0)). cit. p. 107.
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