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his followers congregate outside, in the hope of benefitting 
by a little of the spare cash, which they consider 
Englishmen to be so abundantly blessed with. Another 
annoyance is the number of beggars, chiefly aged or 
diseased, who, with astonishing quickness, find out the 
arrival of los Ingleses, and come to solicit their mite. 
A mere trifle satisfies, and is, in most cases, of great 
assistance to these unfortunates. 
The people have a very healthy appearance, nor does 
the inditferent food of the lower orders appear to operate 
against them much in this respect ; although it is said 
that the major part of the poorer classes cannot afibrd to 
live at a higher rate than a halfpenny or penny per 
diem. Their diet consists in a species of lupin, and 
fish, with some fruit in certain seasons. As to clothing, 
the climate enables them to consider as superfluous all 
but the most scanty amount of garments ; and numbers 
of children may everywhere be seen, with no other 
wearing apparel than a coarse straw hat, and the tat- 
tered remains of an old shirt, so entirely a thing of 
shreds and patches as to require no small address to 
keep it together in such a manner as may indicate its 
original form. The holiday attire of the Campafieros is 
a blue or green cloth jacket, with numerous small 
globular buttons, a pair of velveteen inexpressibles, 
slashed at the side, and reaching half way down the leg ; 
under these they generally wear a pair of coarse linen 
drawers, which are somewhat longer : the stockings are 
thick, and come over the shoe, but are without soles ; 
