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but I recolle& nothing beyond the pretentious pavilion 
exteriors of the Brazilian and Uraguayan seétions, 
and as to the last mentioned, a great deal of time 
and money was spent on a landscape view of Coto- 
paxi mountain, which panel painting direétly fronted 
the main entrance to our Court. Liberia made a 
nice little display, and her Commissioner, a gentleman 
of colour, was exceedingly courteous and obliging to his 
visitors. He was accompanied by a coloured young 
man who aéted as Secretary. The curious feature of 
the Liberian representation, as it ultimately transpired, 
lay in the circumstance that it was “ financed” by postage 
stamps, but if the story published in a New York journal 
were credible really unbounded faith was reposed in the 
philatelical enthusiasm of the Americans, and the unfor- 
tunate Commissioner came dangerously near being 
landed “ high and dry” pecuniarily speaking, until just in 
the nick of time a New Yorker purchased his stamp 
stock ina lump. Inever succeeded in seeing Curacoa 
Court save from the outside. There was always a rope 
across the entrance way, and for all pra€tical purposes 
the exhibit might just as well have been non est inventus 
up to the endof June. There were two life-size models 
of Dutch creole peasantry, a man and a woman, stand- 
ing just within the entrance. I used to ask Mr, 
QUELCH’S faétotum when Curagoa would be open, and 
the query grew at last into a regular, daily joke. The 
sole information procurable, however, was that the 
Curagoa Government had only voted a very limited 
amount for the Exposition, and the balance after instal- 
lation expenditure merely sufficed to meet the cost of 
keeping the little Court open a certain number of times 
