Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Part 7

HEAD-DRESSES IN LIMA.--THE MANTO.

[Ill.u.s.tration: The Senoritas look very prettily sometimes, with their black mantillas thrown gracefully over their heads, (_See Geographies, etc._,) but when you come across a party possessing a decided nose, in profile, the effect is rather startling.]

REVOLUTIONS IN PERU.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Our apartments look out upon the Grand Plaza, where the fighting usually takes place; and as the windows are mostly broken by the b.a.l.l.s of the last Revolution, (Nov. 6, 1865,) and it's about time for another, Our Artist gets into ambuscade every time he hears a fire-cracker in the street.]

THE WAR WITH SPAIN.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Two native and dreadfully patriotic Peruvian soldiers on review before their superior officer.]

MARTIAL MUSIC IN PERU.

[Ill.u.s.tration: The National Hymn, with variations, as rendered by the Royal Band in front of President Prado's palace on the Grand Plaza.]

FINE ARTS IN PERU.

[Ill.u.s.tration: A hasty sketch of Mistress Juno and her peac.o.c.ks, as represented by fresco in the doorway of a Lima palace--Calle Ayachucho.]

DARK AGES OF PERU.

[Ill.u.s.tration: The old unfinished church and deserted monastery of San Francisco de Paula--Calle Malambo.]

LOCOMOTION IN SOUTH AMERICA.

[Ill.u.s.tration: What the country people would do down there, if the jacka.s.ses were only long enough.--What they _do_ do, is but slightly caricatured by Our Artist.]

HAIR-DRESSING IN LIMA.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Ladies' style as seen at the theatre.

Also Our Artist before and after he had his hair cut in the latest Lima fas.h.i.+on.]

A FRUIT-STALL AT CHORRILLOS.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Artist, as he appeared when stricken with amazement at the huge cl.u.s.ters of white grapes that are everywhere, for a mere song, sold in Peru.]

SHOPPING IN PERU.

[Ill.u.s.tration: A Peruvian materfamilias, having bought a few simple house-keeping articles in town, is here seen returning to her mountain home, accompanied by her purchases.]

THE FLEAS OF LIMA.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Having been nearly devoured by these carnivorous little devils, Our Artist sprinkles himself with Turkish flea-powder one night before retiring, and is charmed at the rapid and parabolic manner with which they desert him.]

THE LLAMAS OF PERU.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Artist had heretofore fancied that it would be immensely jolly to ride one of these singular beasts of burden; but when he encounters this one, on a lonely road outside the walls one day, he begs to be excused.]

TERPSICh.o.r.e IN PERU.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Our Artist a.s.sists at a mask-ball in the Jardin Otaiza, and is puzzled at the nationality of the costumes worn by the dancers.]

CHURCH ORNAMENTS IN LIMA.

[Ill.u.s.tration: The statues in the niches and on the spires of the Cathedral look very well in the daytime; but at night, when the turkey-buzzards roost on their heads, the solemnity of the thing is somewhat marred.]