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There are only three houses in the bay — viz. the tienda, where 

 they sell a little of everything and buy the wax from the bee- 

 hunters, and which we made our headquarters, owned by Don 

 Antonio Roig — the house of his overseer, or rather only servant 

 — a free negro named Correa — and that of Roig's brother, who I 

 believe has no occupation — but all three join in cutting firewood 

 and Fustic, as return cargo for a small vessel that brings goods 

 from Cuba for the shop. Mrs. Roig, a very ugly brown woman, 

 and a whole troup of children of the same color gave us a hearty 

 welcome, and stared at us, as if they had never seen a civilized 

 person before. The establishment consisted of three buildings — 

 to the right the kitchen, in the middle the children's bedroom, in 

 front of which was thatched shed without sides, used as dining 

 room etc. and to the left the tienda, consisting of a very small 

 shop, and the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Roig. 



They killed a pig for us on arrival, most of which they cut 

 into strips and dried in the sun to make tasajo, leaving us some 

 ribs for dinner and the next day — with this and plenty of yams, 

 bananas, and sweet potatoes, we fared very well. 



On enquiring for a guide about whom we had previously 

 written, Mr. Roig informed us that he had gone off that morning 

 on business to the Magistrate, a distance of 45 miles, and that 

 we must wait till he came back, as there was no one else — this 

 did not at all suit us, as we had told the patron of the vessel to 

 return for us on the Friday — after questioning for a long time, 

 Mr. Roig at last told us he knew of one man, 9 miles from there, 

 who he thought might do it, and accordingly we sent off to him 

 the same night and in the morning he arrived. 



Before dinner I took a stroll with my gun, but I soon came 

 back, having killed a good many pigeons and parrots, literally 

 tired of shooting them, as there were such quantities. 



At night Jenneret and I slung our hammocks in the shed, and 

 slept very well, with a nice fresh breeze from the sea, a full moon 

 and no mosquitoes — the other three slept in the shop. 



Wednesday, 4th. Up at daybreak and took a bath in the sea, 

 but was afraid to go out of my depth on account of the sharks, 

 of which there are swarms in the bay. I then took my net and 



