he front; but it was too
late. He turned in despair and fled to the mountains followed by a
few of his immediate troops.

One of the leading causes of Peru's defeat, was the fact that her
soldiers were armed with two makes of rifles of different caliber.
The cartridges became mixed and hundreds of soldiers were seen to throw
down their guns and flee because their shells would not fit.
The ammunition, too, was strapped on mules that scampered away out of
reach after the first fire.

Paul with hundreds of others, fled to Lima. The city had been taken
possession of by a mob of drunken sailors and soldiers, who went about
in large bodies, robbing and killing indiscriminately. The streets were
strewn with the dead. Next day the foreign residents banded
themselves together to put down the mob. Boyton took command of a
company of Americans and went through the streets shooting down the
rioters wherever found. On a street at one side of the palace a row of
little houses was occupied by Jewish money changers. This was an
especial point of attack by the rioters on the first night. They were
under the impression that loads of money would be found there. Next
morning the narrow street was full of dead rioters, showing the
desperate and successful defense made by the Jews, who shot the robbers
through holes made in their doors and walls.

Hundreds of Chinamen were shot and their valuables taken. The foreign
patrols soon beat the mob into submission, and then collecting silks and
other goods that had been taken from the people, they placed them in a
general repository where they could be claimed by the owners, if alive.
While the rioting was going on in Lima, the Peruvians set fire to all
the shipping in the harbor at Callao, to keep it from falling into the
hands of the conquerors. The patrols were kept busy until the twentieth
of January, when the Chileans marched triumphantly into Lima. The city
presented a queer sight. From almost every house the flag of some
foreign nation was flying, to save it from pillage and destruction;
but scowling faces appeared at the windows. The first act of the Chilean
army was to break in and rob the custom house. An attempt was made
to restrain the men, but some awful scenes were enacted before it was
done.

During this time, Paul and some friends had a chance to visit the
battle-fields of Miraflores and Chorrillos. And the sights they
witnessed! The