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The country now became pastoral and studded with 

 thorn bushes with wonderfully knotted and gnarled 

 stems ; as they are all hard wood they would be 

 valuable to fancy furniture and garden seat manufac- 

 turers. We met a party of Generals in mufti but wear- 

 ing purple military caps, also a local doftor, he said he 

 knew me " very much long." Next a gentleman — called a 

 Curioso! a Quack Do6\or or local Kickapoo, Approach- 

 ing Juan Griego we enter a long, interminably long 

 street termed Calle Arismendi (after a patriot) — round 

 the corner, and a cheerful, bustling and truly pi6luresque 

 little town is before us. A creek called La Salina, 

 like a river, runs through it, crossed by solid stone or 

 concrete bridges (Spanish masons I observed were em- 

 ployed) the streets are narrow and delightfully irregular, 

 the stores and dwellings of the usual Spanish type. An 

 opportunity was afforded me of judging at one glance 

 of the produce by a kind of impromptu market held in 

 the open street. Our old friend moko or jumbi fig was 

 present and also plantains, bananas, sive, tanias, lemons, 

 limes and oranges, avocado, balangene, sugar apples, etc. 

 also capital cakes and white bread, but mainly aripa or 

 johnny cakes made from white maize flour. This little 

 town presenlB a handsome front to the sea and has quite 

 an " Esplanade," with a handsome water fountain, 

 light house and ornamental trees. The sea view is too 

 lovely to describe — a rugged coast line,, rocky islets, 

 sandy white beaches and mountains on mountains. This 

 wild scenery and the distant Testigos (the witnesses) 

 remind one of the early history of the Island, full of 

 romance, the haunts of the Buccaneers — amongst the 

 most renowned being Captain Teaghe of Testigos, the 



