Note 51 — APPENDIX
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Not only is the ass of Lima the useful quadruped here described, but one of the most ungratefully dealt with by the natives, who seem to have forgotten how honoured this animal had been in ancient times. The saddle-ass is goaded on at a nimble pace by the sharp point of a rib torn from some of the numerous skeletons of mules and horses, &c. which are scattered on the mounds of rubbish, or in the lanes around orchards, within and without the city-walls; and the donkey-driver grins his smile of savage complacency as he swings about his heavy lash, and nicely hits some raw and bleeding spot, the effect of former and frequent inflictions of the same sort at the hands of cruel men.
Ayanque, in his picture of Lima, correctly says,
Veras borricos de alfalfa Y borricos capacheros, Borricos cargando harina, Piedra, cal, ladrillo y yeso. Veras borricos volar Al son del latigo huyendo.—Translator.