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which latter tend not a little to render the 

 people idle, their number, including Sundays, 

 amounting to one hundred and eighty ; but 

 the congress have it under consideration to 

 reduce them as nearly as possible to the 

 number of festivals celebrated in Protestant 

 countries. In addition to these diversions, 

 the gentlemen amuse themselves with bull 

 and cock-fighting, in which much money is 

 lost and won ; games of chance are also 

 played, and public dinners occasionally 

 given ; but in consequence of the small for- 

 tunes of the majority of the people, these are 

 very rare. 



The modes of conveyance are confined, by 

 land, to mules, and by water, to canoes, or 

 piraguas ; the latter mode will be much im- 

 proved by the use of steam vessels, and the 

 former, in the course of time, when new roads 

 are formed,^ will be rendered convenient. The 

 territory of Colombia being divided in all 



