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cumstance around us, we felt somewhat ashamed 

 of tlie lively and pleasing interest, with which we 

 had recently listened to an account of the very 

 same transactions, at a distance, and before we 

 had witnessed the reality. 



On returning to the beach, we were assailed by 

 a number of little girls, six or seven years of age, 

 each with a fowl in her arms, and all beseeching 

 us to purchase. The children here are pretty, 

 and their cheeks, unlike those of children be- 

 tween the tropics, chubby and rosy ; their hair, 

 resembling that of their Spanish and Indian an- 

 cestors, is long, glossy, and black, hanging over 

 their brows, till smoothed back by the hand, to 

 disclose their still blacker eyes. When the little 

 monkeys looked up in our faces and smiled, so 

 as to show their beautiful white teeth and dimpled 

 cheeks, there was no resisting the appeal ; and 

 we bought a boat-load of poultry more than we 

 had any use for. 



We laid in a supply of coals and fire-wood at 

 this place. The coals, which were brought for us 

 to the beach, cost twelve shillings per ton, every- 

 thing included. The fire-wood cost about four 



