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CHURCHES. 
sometimes boots made of goat-skins, and ornamented 
with red, are worn ; A high-crowned hat, with a tassel 
or two, completes the costume. The towns-people do not 
differ very much from English in their style of dress, 
except that the poorer women wear a square light drab 
mantilla, edged with white, under a straw hat ; and 
the Sehoras and Sehoritas one of silk, which — spread over 
the head, and falling down gracefully on the person — 
has a pretty effect. We need scarcely say that the 
softer sex have that peculiar and striking carriage, 
which is so much noticed in the mother country. The 
features of the people are good, especially the eyes, which 
are dark and lustrous. 
The churches, two in number, are like most of these 
edifices in Catholic countries, the altars being gorgeously 
fitted up, nor are the usual rich decorations of Nuestra 
Senora forgotten. 
The Iglcsia de la Concepcion possesses some objects 
of interest to an Englishman ; — the two flags taken in 
the unsuccessful attack made by Nelson on the town, 
when he lost his arm. They are placed over an altar on 
the left-hand side on entering the church, and have 
suffered greatly from the ravages of time : so much so 
indeed, that it is reported to be the intention of the autho- 
rities to enclose them in glass to prevent further decay. 
Many of our countrymen on visiting this, appear to 
be chagrined that the flag, which has braved a thousand 
years, the “ battle and the breeze,” should be in such 
hands ; indeed, on two occasions, if the cicerone state- 
