File:One way round South America, from manuscript, notes and letters of Delight Sweetser Prentiss illustrated from photographs (1905) (14762892254).jpg

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Title: One way round South America, from manuscript, notes and letters of Delight Sweetser Prentiss ... illustrated from photographs
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Prentiss, Delight Sweetser. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ward the old bridge known as the StoneBridge, which crosses the Rimac. This venerablebridge of Chorrillos granite, which has the solidhandsome lines of an old Roman structure, wasbuilt by order of one of the Spanish viceroys in1608, and stands to-day, in spite of the attacksof earthquake and flood, offering the same quaintarched path to the wayfarer that it did a hundredor two hundred years ago. We found manyother carriages bound in our direction and, driv-ing past the Alameda de Acho, a long green ave-nue of as fine trees as you will find in Lima, wearrived at the bull-ring. The open place in front of the new Baltabridge was rilled with people. There were manybooths about where they were selling red chicha,instead of lemonade. The crowd was movingtoward the ring, which stands in a space that hasbeen closed about with buildings and is reachedthrough several entrances from the neighboringstreets. The ring itself is built in amphitheaterfashion, the entrance to the seats and boxes being
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IMPRESSIONS OF A BULL-FIGHT 145 through little doors on the outside. Those whooccupy places above climb to an outside circularbalcony, from which the doors lead in. On theground floor there is a circle of curious lowboxes which give the inmates barely room tostand. The only windows are long, narrow, hori-zontal slits, through which one peers directly intothe ring. The contest must look doubly excitingfrom this place on the ground, where the bull andthe fighters are often within touching distance ofthe spectator. I was told that the devotees of thesport go there. We mounted to the more fashion-able upper tier of boxes, little compartments upunder the roof, where there was a circle of well-dressed folk in French costume. Look about with me! In the large circle belowus are the people, a great crowd, largely men,with the Panama hat much in evidence, and occa-sionally the head of a woman, swathed in theblack manto of the country, a somber nun-likehead-dress, with here and there the uniform

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