Upon inquiry, I found that these bull-fights formerly took place on Monday, but that the Archbishop of Lima, to enable the laboring classes to attend them, had changed the day to the Sabbath. They are a horrible spectacle at best, utterly revolting to every sentiment of refinement and humanity; and the social and moral evils which they inflict would be sufficiently revolting were they confined to secular occasions, but they become doubly pernicious when they involve such an outrage on the sanctity of the Sabbath, under the sanction, too, of the highest ecclesiastical functionary in the state.

Bull-fights, as conducted here, involve very little peril and suffering except to the poor beast. His antagonists are pretty safe, or he would drive them out of the arena. It is an exhibition of craft and cowardice on one side, and courage and despair on the other. Of the two, the bull sustains much the nobler part, and would have much the larger share of my sympathy and respect. If men must fight for the amusement of their fellows, let them fight one another. If the death of one don't furnish sufficient excitement, then let the other be shot or hung, as the taste of the spectators shall suggest. But let them not catch a poor beast, torture him with fagots and fire, skulk themselves, and pick him to death with their long weapons, and then insult the intelligence

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of the community by calling the dastardly act an exhibition of chivalry and valor.

It is no wonder the ladies in Lima are deficient in delicacy and moral refinement, accustomed as they are from their childhood to such savage spectacles. It is but justice, however, to say, that there are some mothers here who will not permit their daughters to attend them; nor will they allow them, for this, or any other purpose, to disguise themselves in the saya y manto. There was one righteous man in Sodom, and there is more than one good mother even in Lima.

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CHAPTER IX.

SKETCHES OF LIMA.

EDUCATION OF FEMALES.-MARRIAGES.-LAPSES FROM VIRTUE. THE SUNSET BELL-SILK FACTORY IN A CONVENT.-HABITS OF THE INDIANS.THE HALF WEDLOCK.-BLIND PEDLER.-PROTESTANT YOUTH IN LIMA.— RELIGION OF THE LIMANIANS.-INTRIGUES AT COURT.-MODES OF LIVING. THE ZAMPAS.-CHURCHES.-INDIAN DOCTORS.-FRUITS OF THE COUNTRY.-OLD SPANISH FAMILIES.-MASSES FOR THE REPOSE OF THE

SOUL

"I say in my slight way I may proceed

To play upon the surface of humanity;

I write the world, nor care if the world read,
At least for this I cannot spare its vanity."

SATURDAY, APRIL 18. A girl here at the age of ten or eleven is as far advanced in her social and matrimonial anticipations as she is with us at seventeen. She expects in her fourteenth year to sway hearts, as the moon the troubled tide. For this period she trains herself with an ambition far beyond her years; and when it arrives, she is armed with all the brilliant weapons of beauty, wit, repartee, and a lively self-possession. Her wit never wounds, her repartee never gives offence. She is thoroughly amiable in all her sallies, she means to make you think well of her, and is equally anxious that you should think well of yourself. She understands how to inspire self-complacency without any broad flat