SUNDAY. 



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CHAPTER XI. 



BOGOTA'^ SUNDAY FETE DIEU SOCIETY 



IN GENERAL PARTY AT THE PALACE. 



With the earliest dawn of Sunday morn- 

 ing the bells of the various monasteries and 

 churches begin ringing, and masses com- 

 mence and continue, with very little intermis- 

 sion, during the whole of the day. From 

 ten to twelve the Calle R6al is thronged 

 with the inhabitants ; at every corner are 

 groupes of citizens and officers, anxiously 

 listening to the reading of the Sunday's Ga- 

 zette, or any new and interesting pamphlet 

 that may have issued from the Colombian 



