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Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers

PART II. ——— PERU.

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Illustration from Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Leaves from The Sketch-Book of a Traveller, 1864-1868

PERUVIAN SKETCHES.

Friendly Counsels. Good for Digestion.

A Disagreeable Berth. An Eye for an Eye.

A Colored Reception. Who Knows? (nose).

The Naked Truth. Discretion in Valor.

A Panama Laundress. Black Warriors.

A Man for A' Hat. Music hath Charms.

Domestic Bliss. A Chariot Race.

A Bit of a Church. An Antique.

Hot Weather. Family Arrangement.

What an Ass! Heads of the People.

A Happy Family. By their Fruits.

Land at Last. A Beast of Burden.

Callao Cathedral. A Night Adventure.

A Baggage Train. A Runaway.

Cathedral at Lima. The light Fantastic.

A Water-carrier. A Rooster.

A Bag of Cuffey. A Chime of Bells.

Birds of a Feather. Dog-days.

A China Bowl of Soup. Pork Business.

Thing of Beauty. When shall we three.

Fondest Hopes Decay. Unhand me!

Rat-ification Meeting. Nothing venture.

A Back Seat. A great sell.

An excellent View. A beggarly Show.

Bread-baskets. A Dead-head.

THE START—STEAMSHIP "HENRY CHAUNCEY." FROM NEW YORK TO ASPINWALL.

Illustration from Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Leaves from The Sketch-Book of a Traveller, 1864-1868

Sea-sickness being a weakness of Our Artist, he determines to be fore-armed, and accordingly provides himself with a few simple preventives, warmly recommended by his various friends.

IN THE CARIBBEAN SEA.

Illustration from Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Leaves from The Sketch-Book of a Traveller, 1864-1868

Our Artist, having indulged rather freely in the different preventives, gets things mixed, and wishes that his friends and their confounded antidotes were at the bottom of the Dead Sea.

ARRIVAL AT ASPINWALL.

Illustration from Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Leaves from The Sketch-Book of a Traveller, 1864-1868

First impressions of the city and its inhabitants.—Colored citizens on the dock, awaiting the steamer's advent.

ISTHMUS OF DARIEN.

Illustration from Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Leaves from The Sketch-Book of a Traveller, 1864-1868

View from the window of a Panama railroad car—showing the low-neck and short-sleeve style of costume adopted by the youthful natives of Cruces.—Also a sprightly specimen of the one-eared greyhound indigenous to the country.

A VIEW IN PANAMA.

Illustration from Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Leaves from The Sketch-Book of a Traveller, 1864-1868

The old and weather-beaten church of Santa Ana—and in the foreground, with basket on her head, baby under one arm, and bowl of milk supported by the other, a colored lady of West Indian descent, vulgarly known as a "Jamaica nigger."

AN AFTERNOON AT PANAMA.

Illustration from Our Artist in Cuba, Peru, Spain and Algiers Leaves from The Sketch-Book of a Traveller, 1864-1868

Deeming it always incumbent upon the traveller to invest in the products of the country, Our Artist provides himself with a good sensible Panama hat, and thus with wife and "mutual friend," he peacefully and serenely meanders around among the suburbs of the city.

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