E-text prepared by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by HathiTrust Digital Library (https://www.hathitrust.org/) Note: Images of the original pages are available through HathiTrust Digital Library. See https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002088372728 Project Gutenberg has the other volume of this work. Volume II: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59063 PERU AS IT IS: A RESIDENCE IN LIMA, AND OTHER PARTS OF THE PERUVIAN REPUBLIC, COMPRISING AN ACCOUNT OF THE SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THAT COUNTRY. BY ARCHIBALD SMITH, M.D. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. 1839. LONDON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY, Dorset Street, Fleet Street. TO SIR ALEXANDER CRICHTON, M.D. F.R.S. PHYSICIAN IN ORDINARY TO THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA, AND TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE; KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF THE ORDERS OF ST. WLADIMIR AND ST. ANNE, KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF THE RED EAGLE OF PRUSSIA, ETC. the following account of Peru, a country which, it is probable, the Author never would have visited but for his very kind and disinterested patronage, is most gratefully dedicated by ARCHIBALD SMITH. PREFACE. In this refined age and country, to make a graceful appearance as an author requires endowments to which the writer of the following pages has no pretension: neither would he have intruded himself on the public notice, had he not thought it a duty incumbent on every one who travels, to give his own country the benefit of his observation and experience. He will venture to assert, that he has had ample means of making himself acquainted with his subject, and that he has treated it with candour and impartiality. For upwards of ten years he lived in Peru: sometimes residing among miners; at other times associating with agriculturists; and professionally brought into contact with persons of all classes and ranks in society, from the palace to the humblest hut.