What I saw on the west coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands.: By H. Willis Baxley, M.D.

CITY OF LIEIA.
by auadors8-water-carriers. For its transportation two kegs
are placed endwise in hloops, attached to a pack-saddle on the
back of a donkey. The aquador, armed with a formidable propstick for supporting one keg when he removes the other, and
which is freely used for beating his little beast also, mounts
behind the load, his feet often trailing on the ground, and thus
he traverses the city furnishing the indispensable element at
about a real the load. Several other fountains, of less pretensions, all supplied, as is the principal one, by water from the
river Rimac, through pipes, are located in other parts of the
city.
The patient and much-abused donkey is the chief agent in
the general carrying trade of the city; whether it be milk,
bread, fruit, meat, grass, charcoal, wood, adobes, earth, reed, or
other useful and ornamental articles requiring transportation,
the indispensable donkey and his pannier are brought into
requisition. And it is interesting to observe with what intelligence and safety he performs his task; large caravans, with but
one driver, threading the narrow, and at times nearly obstructed
streets, in single file, and with an obedience and precision deserving of more considerate and merciful treatment than they
usually receive from their brutal negro task-masters; who seem
to have been relieved in Peru from compulsory labor only to
become the more cruel in their inflictions upon animals but
little less intelligent, and far more useful and amenable to
authority, than themselves.
On the north, south, and west sides of the plaza, are arcades
in front of the houses, covering the sidewalks, which are here
wider than elsewhere, and handsomely paved with marble tiles.
These arcades, columned and arched toward the plaza, form
sheltered promenades for the fashionables, who resort here as
well for pleasure and sight-seeing as to make purchases at the
fancy and other shops that border the arcades, and brilliantly
illuminate them at night with their show-window gas4-lights.
On the north side of the plaza, behind the shops, is a court-yard,
with a portal guarded by armed soldiers, and over which
floats the national flag.. Around this space are the buildings
for the accommodation of the criminal court, the office of the
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