Potosí, Peru (later Bolivia): Edmond Temple, a lady (Doña Juliana), her Andean servants and two clerics assembled for grace after dinner. Aquatint by J. Clark, 1829, after W. Hornsby.

"Doña Juliana, Cura Costas, (the respectable head of the church at Potosi), Padre Francisco (a Dominican friar, whose portly corporation excited in my mind a malicious suspicion of his being more accustomed to feasting than fasting), were the party with whom, at two o'clock, I sat down to dinner. ... When the cloth was removed, all the attendants, without any word of command, ranged themselves in a rank in the middle of the room, and suddenly dropping on their knees, sung or said aloud a grace that lasted full four minutes, in which the deep-toned voices of Padre Costas and Friar Francisco, nothing mellowed by their hearty meal and ample goblet of Cinty wine from the estate of our hostess, chimed in like bass-viols, whilst Doña Juliana, pressing her cross and beads to her bosom, her eyes devoutly fixed upon a beautiful painting of the Virgin and Child, which hung opposite to her in a large massive silver frame, accompanied the others in all the fervency of thanksgiving. A deep "Amen!" with the sign of the cross, as a benediction upon the company, by Padre Costas, ended this appropriate ceremony, in the solemnity of which the most obdurate heretic could not have refrained from joining."--Temple, loc. cit. Temple is standing on the left