A N I G H T *S LODGING. 



hooked each of them to the hammock. While he was 

 preparing them the woman was showing horn combs, 

 beads, earrings, and rosaries, and entrapped the daugh- 

 ter of the host into the purchase of a comb. The house 

 had an unusual influx of company. The young man, 

 the female merchant, and I do not know how many of 

 the family, slept in a back room. The elder traveller 

 offered me the hammock, but I preferred the long chest, 

 made from the trunk of a tree, which in every house in 

 Nicaragua served as a sort of cupboard. 



