Chapter I: Front Matter

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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. II.

LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
1839.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street.

CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER I.

Site, population, and climate of Cerro Pasco.—Houses.—Coal,
and other kinds of fuel.—Timber for use of
the mines, &c.—Where brought from.—Fruit and
provisions.—Mines.—Mantadas.—Boliches.—Habilitador.—Mint.
—Returns of the mines.—Banks of Rescate.—Pasco foundery. Page 1

CHAPTER II.

Descent from Pasco to Huanuco.—Succession of
works for grinding and amalgamating silver
ore.—Quinoa.—Cajamarquilla.—Huariaca.—San Rafael.—Ambo.—Vale
of Huanuco; its beauties and advantages.—State of agriculture
in this vale, and traffic with Pasco.—The College named La
Virtud Peruana.—Steam navigation on the river Huallaga, and
civilization of the wild Indians of the Montaña.—Natural
productions of the Montaña. 28

CHAPTER III.

The Department of Junin.—The river Marañon.—General
sketch of the form of internal Government of
Peru.—Particular account of the Prefectorate or Department
of Junin.—Mines.—Agriculture.—Manufactures.—Public
Instruction.—Hospitals and Charitable
Asylums.—Vaccination.—Junta of Health.—Public
Baths.—Police.—Pantheons.—Roads.—Posts.—Public Treasury at
Pasco.—Administration of Justice.—National Militia. 65

CHAPTER IV.

Missionary College of Ocopa.—Its foundation, utility, downfall,
and decree for its restoration.—Introduction of Christianity
along the rivers Marañon, Huallaga, and Ucayali, &c. by the
Jesuits and Franciscans.—Letter from Friar Manuel Plaza, the
last great missionary of Ocopa, to the prefect of Junin. 113

CHAPTER V.

Christianized Indians of the Interior.—Their condition and
character.—Hardships imposed on them.—Desire of revenge. 143

CHAPTER VI.

War of Independence.—Unsettled state of the country
at the close of 1835 and early in 1836.—Gamarra’s
Government.—Insurrections.—Guerilla and Freebooters.—Foreign
Marines.—Lima invaded from the castles of Callao, under
command of Solar.—Orbegoso enters Lima.—Castles of Callao
taken by assault.—Battle of Socabaya.—Salaverry taken
prisoner.—Execution.—Public tranquillity hoped for under the
protection of Santa-Cruz. 169

CHAPTER VII.

On Climate and Disease.—Panama, Guayaquil, Peru, and Chile. 196

APPENDIX.

On the Zoology of Western Peru 237

Geognostic description of the country in the environs of
Arequipa, with an Analysis of the Mineral Waters in the
vicinity of the same city 266

Steam Navigation 286

Ecclesiastical Jubilee 291

Adieu to Lima 303

ERRATA.

Page 13, line 9, _for_ polv_e_rilla and ma_ssis_a _read_ polv_o_rilla
and ma_ciz_a.

128, ” 17, and in all other instances, _for_ Pozu_r_o _read_
Pozu_z_o.

187, ” 2, _for_ reali_s_e _read_ reali_z_e.

239, ” 6, _for_ the aborigines _read_ those.

Transcriber’s Note: The errata have been corrected but otherwise the original spelling (in both English and Spanish) has been preserved.

PERU AS IT IS.