THE MARKET. 



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not far distant is the day when your whoie 

 edifice will lie crumbling in the dust." 



The market is well supplied with meat, 

 consisting of beef, mutton, and pork. The 

 beef and mutton are tolerable, but far infe- 

 rior to English, the grain of the meat being 

 coarser, the people not understanding how 

 to fatten animals for killing ; the pork is 

 generally of a dark tinge, and very strong, 

 consequently disagreeable to an European 

 stomach ; the natives however, I think, con- 

 sumed a greater quantity of it than of either 

 beef or mutton. Beef is sold in the market 

 at three-pence a pound ; mutton, two reals 

 (one shilling) a quarter ; pork, at three-pence. 

 The whole is badly killed, and worse cut up, 

 so much so, that I looked out for a butcher 

 who did not frequent the market, and who 

 had learned to kill in the English manner. 

 The price of the meat was consequently in- 

 creased, but then, besides being better killed, 



