friar's apartment. 



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From Liva we proceeded through Suta 

 to Chiquinquira, where we arrived about 

 four o'clock ; we immediately went to the 

 monastery attached to the principal church, 

 which is dedicated to the Virgin. Senor 

 Paris then introduced me to one of the 

 friars, Philipe Ximenes, eighty-eight years 

 of age, a fine hale-looking old man, very 

 lively and animated. We took chocolate 

 with him in his rooms, which were miser- 

 able in the extreme : he had two apart- 

 ments, the one used for a bed -room and 

 sitting-room, the other for a servant's room 

 and kitchen, both excessively small, not 

 exceeding ten feet square ; the furniture 

 in one apartment consisted of a dirty look- 

 ing catre^ or camp-bed, with a toldo over 

 it, two or three wooden chairs, a small 

 table and desk to write at, and a large 

 trunk to contain his clothes ; the walls 

 were decorated with several pictures of 

 holy fathers long departed ; and a variety 



