tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6578019452595492656.post-72662600920428566652008-05-03T19:31:00.000-07:002008-05-03T20:15:14.925-07:002008-05-03T20:15:14.925-07:00<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5196352177334604866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_jZXaAg-kez4/SB0mxhnbVEI/AAAAAAAAAH0/2ffBNHmHt6k/s320/LIma-1.jpg" border="0" /> <div>As Paul Boyton told the story, on arrival in Lima, he and the Peruvian officers marched through the city to the presidential palace. On his way there, he may have noted the striped and checkerboard adobe houses with Moorish balconies, the narrow uneven sidewalks, and donkeys rushing pell-mell along them under the whip of a mounted driver. </div><div>The presidential palace, dilapidated with shops below, sat on the main plaza, a nine-acre square surrounded on three sides by a covered colonnade. On the fourth side stood the Lima Cathedral, and in the center there was a circular garden and fountain.<br /></div><div>Upon arrival at the palace, Paul Boyton pulled out a packet addressed to Don Nicolás de Piérola. The surprised officer harshly escorted Boyton through the palace where he was then taken to meet with the dictator. When Boyton entered the room, Piérola heartily welcomed him. </div><div>Piérola exclaimed "But how did you get here so soon?" Boyton explained about the overeager officer and how the officers forced him to ride all night on mule back. Called in, the officer entered the room with a peacock strut, but Piérola reprimanded him and he slunk off like a beaten dog. Piérola then arranged for Boyton to be taken to the Hotel Americano, where he finally was able to take a much needed rest, not waking until the next morning. </div><div>Authors Note:</div><div>While Paul Boyton's version of his first encounter in Peru with Don Piérola tells a good story, George Kiefer simply said that "after our arrival in Lima we presented ourselves" to Don Nicolás de Piérola." </div><div></div><br /><div>Resources:</div><div>Boyton, Paul. 1892. <em>The story of Paul Boyton: voyages on all the great rivers of the world, paddling over twenty-five thousand miles in a rubber dress.</em> Milwaukee: Riverside. 358 pp.</div><div></div><div></div>Linda Jacobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06096510066972205118noreply@blogger.com0