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You want to know why the Spaniards in Peru and Ecuador should have expected an earthquake.
Because they had had so many already. The shaking of the ground in their country had gone on perpetually, till they had almost ceased to care about it, always hoping that no very heavy shock would come; and being, now and then, terribly mistaken.