En la calle, calladita; En la casa, señorita.
[9] The following lines, penned by an ancient Spanish poet, are so exactly descriptive of Lima, as the paradise of women, that one might imagine they had been written to describe it.
“Aqui gobierna y siempre goberno Aquella reina que en la mar nacio. Aqui su cetro y su corona tiene Y desde aqui sus dadivas reparte, Aqui su ley y su poder mantiene Mucho mejor que en otra cualquier parte.” “Sobre una fresca y verde y grande vega La casa de esta reina esta asentada: Un rio al deredor toda la riega, De arboles la ribera esta sembrada, La sombra de los cuales al sol niega En el solsticio la caliente entrada; Los arboles estan llenos de flores Por do cantando van los ruiseñores.”
[10] The ancient Indian temple of Pachacamac is situate about six leagues from Lima on a sandy height, now deprived of irrigation, which overlooks the delicious vale of Lurin. From this adoratory the sun is seen as he sinks in majesty under the face of the ocean—when
“O’er the hush’d deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.”
[11] The yanacones usually possess from their employers a small piece of land which they cultivate for their own use, and in return give to the masters one or two days’ labour weekly for this holding of the estate or farm. On other days they have a right to demand payment in money, according to the current rate of wages in their district.
[12] The following very scholar-like inscription for the English burial-ground, his countrymen owe to our accomplished and excellent friend, Mr. Thomas Lance of Lima:—
Degentes per hæc loca Britanni, auspice suo Consule Belford Hinton Wilson, gratissimoque hujus Reipublicæ concessu et beneficio, è communibus copiis, Regiâ, censente Senatu, auctis munificentiâ, hoc Cœmeterium struxerunt, sacraveruntque, A. D. ——: ut, posthac, suæ gentis qui procul à patriâ, longinquâ hâc scilicet, sed amicissimâ terrâ, supremum obierint diem, spe fideque patrum innixi, in his sedibus requiescant.
[14] See paper in vol. ii. of Mercurio Peruano for July 1791; and the Inaugural Oration on opening the Anatomical Amphitheatre, inserted, for February 1793, in vol. vii. of same work.
[15] Unanue, “Sobre el Clima de Lima,” p. 313.