There is no Sunday in' Peru. The shops ; are open on .that day :as usual, and in the : afternoon bull-fight s ? cock-fights, and similar public enteriainmerits ' are alway" held. The women always go to mass in the morning, and do up the religion for the entire family, as.very few men are ever seen in the churches. <•• •»: : . '■' ■ Two thousand transport horses were wanted for the autumn manoeuvres of 1873. They were . obtained with the greatest difficulty, and 1500 of the 2000, had to be imported from ' 'France. That ; single fact may give some idea of. our national destitution in transport^trans- ; sport without which the finest army, in the, world r is a stationary mass 'of itieii to be r out-raanceuvred, starved, and surrounded ' at leisure. <-.y,t..;:-. ■/ •.:,,£. •
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Grey River Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 5320, 15 October 1885, Page 4
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