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glimpses through open doors of charming inner courts filled with 

 beautiful flowers and plants. We noticed a peculiarity in the way 

 that the furniture was arranged in the parlors. There were usually 

 about six black rocking-chairs of bent wood in the room, and they 

 were in the centre and facing each other in a double row, so close 

 that they nearly touched. 



The furniture of our bedrooms was meagre in the extreme ; an 

 enameled tin wash-basin and pitcher, a chair, an arrangement called 

 a cot, but in reality a canvas stretcher fastened to a saw-horse. We 



MARKET COURT, BARRANQUILLA. 



spread our matting over this canvas, then a sheet over the matting, 

 and the bed was made. Each cot had a good mosquito net sus- 

 pended above it. 



In the market we saw a number of curious things. The market 

 building is a large one-story structure with an arcade on three sides 



