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

CAMPO DE MAUTE.
moent thlan the acquisition of mineral wealth. The metallic
riches of Chile have been gradually brought to light, as its other
great resources are being developed; and, accordingly, the
worldly aggrandizement of its Church was for a time in abeyance to its spiritual mission. This was fortunate, for it was kept
thereby freer from the corruption and vice of its more worldly
neighbor, and better prepared to fulfil its great duty. The very
early history of its efforts in Chile were accordingly signalized
by many examples of self-sacrificing devotion to the cause of the
religion of Christ. It is strange that the purification of poverty
is necessary to perfect piety! With the discovery of the precious metals, came here, as elsewhere, the yearning after and
acquisition of riches. The evidence of this is palpable in the
structure and adornment of religious edifices; but, as before
said, they are less imposing than in Lima. It is probable that
greater wealth contributed also to increased ecclesiastical demoralization.
A principal public resort on occasions of national celebration by military parade and review, is the Ca7,o de _arte, a
level square of one hundred and fifty acres, beyond the southliern
limits of the city, with a wide drive and promenade, with ornamental trees on all sides, facing which, on the north, is the
handsome artillery barracks; on the east and west, beautiful
cYli7ta8 (country seats) spread over the extensive plain formerly
known as the _ampa; and on the south is the Penitentiary. A
few words about the Penitentiary, in conformity with my rule
of gathering by the wayside and noting, as opportunity offers.
This institution is built on a principle sound in theory, and
sustained by the experience of many States of North America;
and yet in its discipline, and the general administration of its
affairs, stopping so far short of the system professed to have
been adopted, as to have utterly failed in the objects desiredwhich certainly should be more than the mere confinement of a
human being like a wild beast. A quadrilateral brick wall of
sufficient height and strength, on which thirteen guards furnished by the military authorities do duty, encloses about ten
acres of ground. Immediately within this outer wall is another,
enclosing an octangular-shaped space, in the centre of which is
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