MENDICANT NUNS. 
daughters of poor parents, if they be handsome and 
agreeable, apply for and easily obtain this privi- 
lege of begging in the habit of nuns, knowing that 
beauty is one of the most persuasive inducements 
to generosity. The Jamabo , or begging mountain 
priests, frequently incorporate their own daughters 
with this religious order, and take their wives from 
among these Bikuni. Some of them have been bred 
up as courtezans, and, having served their time, 
buy the privilege of entering into this religious 
order, therein to spend the remainder of their youth 
and beauty. They live two or three together, and 
make an excursion every day a few miles from their 
