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Southland Times, Issue 1223, 15 March 1870, Page 3

Lieutenant Saxby has got into the bad books of the inhabitants of Peru. It seems that a Professor Ealb predicted that a terrible earthquake would take; place at the same time as that mentioned by Lieut. Saxby for the occurrence of storms, and the inhabitants, mindful of the disasters which recently befell them both on sea and land, took to the hills for safety. No less than 60,000 of the people of Lima and Callao left their homes, carrying with them whatever of their possessions was portable, and remained camped out for a week in tents and sheds, where they caught agues and fevers. What they lost by a week's suspension of business, by the removal of their goods, |.nd by robberies — forthe thieves did not "give way to the general panic — is estimated at nearly a million dollars. Enraged a,t this the luckless Peruvians gave vent to their anger by burning Professor Ealb and Lieutenant Saxby in effigy, and were, according to last accounts, still heaping maledictions , upon the prophets.