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furnished with chairs and tables, and our hammocks 

 hung up ; and here, amid the wrecks of cities, we 

 were almost in ruins ourselves. Before resorting to 

 our hammocks we made an important and touching 

 discovery, which was that we had but one clean 

 c amis a between us ; and if the reader knew the ex- 

 tent of our travelling wardrobe, he would, perhaps, be 

 somewhat astonished that we had that. Neverthe- 

 less, the discovery perplexed us. The next day 

 was Sunday ; all the village would appear in clean 

 clothes ; it was mortifying that we could not do so 

 too, and, besides, w^e had some little feeling on the 

 score of personal comfort. In Europe, with a frock- 

 coat buttoned tight across the breast, black stock, 

 and one pair of pantaloons, hat, and boots, the trav- 

 eller is independent of the world, but not so under 

 the hot sun of Yucatan. We sent Albino out to 

 look for supplies, but he returned unsuccessful, 

 though he did succeed in making a bargain with a 

 woman to wash an entire change for us the next 

 day ; but she could hardly be made to understand 

 that stockings and sheets were included in a change. 



