Travels in South America from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, Paul Marcoy and Édouard Riou, 1875

In Travels in South America, Paul Marcoy describes love as a pastime for married women in Arequipa: 

“For these charming women love is not a passion, but an agreeable pastime, a pretext for romancing, a mere something for a change… Love is for them the daily game of whist or boston, which diverts their thoughts from the bondage of wedded life.” 

Elsewhere, Marcoy glibly reports a game of bowls ending when one competitor kills the other in a dispute over the score and is in turn killed by onlookers. He doesn’t go into any further detail.