A VOYAGE TO 
wafhing, prefllire, and evaporation, it is deprived of all 
its noxious qualities, and being formed into cakes be- 
comes a falubrious and not an unpalatable fubflitute for 
bread. 
By the indulgence of the Viceroy, the deficiency in 
the military ftores obferved at the departure of the 
tranfports from England, was made up by a fupply pur- 
chafed from the Royal arfenal ; nor was any affiftance 
withheld which either the place afforded, or the ftores 
of government could furnifh. 
The circumftances, which in this place moft aftonifli a 
ftranger, and particularly a Proteftant, are, the great abun- 
dance of images difperfed throughout the city, and the de- 
votion paid to them. They are placed at the corner of 
almoft every ftreet, and are never paffed without a re- 
fpeftfnl falutation ; but at night they are conftantly fur- 
rounded by their refpe6live votaries, who offer up their 
prayers aloud, and make the air refound in all quarters 
with the notes of their hymns « The ftri6lnefs of man- 
ners in the inhabitants is not faid to be at all equivalent 
to the warmth of this devotion ; but in all countries and 
climates it is found much eafier to perform external a6ls 
of reputed piety, than to acquire the internal habits fo 
mvich more effential. It muft be owned, however, that 
our people did not find the ladies fo indulgent as fome 
voyagers have reprefented them. 
