Amador ledger., 1908-08-07
Cruise Of the Lawrence.
Continued

is held very stcred, and no one but
the priests ever enter. Pizarro's body
is in n marble casket, with a glass top
and side, hermetically sealed. 1t is
nothing but skeleton covered with
dry, brown. skin, but IS vouched for
by some very responsible authorities
as being the original body. The cath
edral on the outside IS rather ugly,
being built of yellow adobe brick, be-
ginning to crumble in some places,
but inside it is altogether different.
The main altar Is huge, and very elab-
orately constructed and decorated, and
must have taken years to build. Along
the sides are rooms about 25x3O feet,
IN each of which is a small altar for
private services. Some of these affairs
are veritable works of art, inlaid with
gold, and very handsomely decorated
and equipped. 1t is in one of these
that the body of Pizarro rests. Along
the walls are some very handsome old
paintings, each representing some
scene from the life of Christ. Just
in front of this cathedral is Ia very
pretty little Plaza, and on the left
are some of the municipal buildings.
among them the pulice station. 1t
is said that whenever a municipal
election is held that one party gets
ON the roof of the police station, and
| hA oth faI
III the towers of the old cathedral |
have just described, and a pitched
battle is waged, the little plaza being
sometimes covered with dead bodies
10 substantiate this the old cathedral
is covered with bullet holes. Lima is
divided into two sections by a noun
tain stream that flows down a little
valley, and the two sections are con-
nected by bridge. Lima and Callao
are connected by both steam and cleo
trio cars, all the rolling stock being
of Amer lean build and very modern.
Half way between Lima and CaIlao
is the electric power house, which is
| fitted with very up-to-date machinery
and appliances. The railroad runs
by Lima, and extends up into the
Andes, attaining level of 25000 feet
There are great many American
enigneers down here, in fact this
railroad, which is one of the greatest
teats OF engineering skill In the
world, was built by an American
Company. On the outskirts of Lima
is large marble statue, erected to
commemo the unity of Peru,
Bolivia, and two other small re-
publics, but for some reason, after
the statue had been unveiled, they
failed to unite, and came near having
war instead and the statue was the
object of much ridicuIe by the
amer ican bluejackets.
The native Peruvians are of very
good appearance, the upper classes
having only shade darker skin
than Americans. The standard of
civilization Is very high, but |
haven't seen country on the whole
/ trip that can compare with the good
old U. s. A.
Left Callao March 9Th, en- route to
Panama, and found fine weather out
side, which we kept until reaching
Panama on March l4th. Our course
into our anchorage at Panama was
between several small hilly islands,
and we came to anchor in Panama
Roads, about four miles off shore,
just off La Boca, the Pacific terminal
of the canal. We were forced to
anchor at this distance from shore as
there is about 20 foot raise and fall
of tide here. The city of Panama can
hardly be called pretty, but it isn't
rather most of them, are of the same
"Spigotty" material, but there are
several thousand Americans here
now, consequently things are becom-
ing more and more Americanized
every day. Most of the canal en-
ployes live just outside of Panama in
a settlement called Ancon, or rather
Ancon is just part of Panama called
by that name. They have quarters"
built by Uncle Sam and furnished
them frne of charge. They are
models of cleanliness, and are plain
but convenient, and not bad look
ing. Uncle Sam has transformed
our strip along tho Isthmus from a
dirty, swampy, unhealthy wilderness,
into clean, healthy region, with
the most perfect sanitary appliances
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