CARNIVAL SPORTS. 
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Mamma del Toro, and pass three days more on the borders 
oi the lake. 
It was the carniva, season, and all was gaiety. The 
sports in which the people indulge, and which are called 
carnes tollendas, assume occasionally somewhat of a savage 
c laracter. Some led .an ass loaded with water, and, where- 
ever they lound a window open, inundated the apartment 
within by means of a pump. Others carried bags filled with 
unrs of picapica ;f and blew the hair, which causes a great 
mi a ion oi the skin, into the face's of those who passed bv. 
frm , (jUacl ir a returned to Nueva Valencia. We 
j • f ere a e " 1'rench emigrants, the only ones we saw 
H ye r- S P ^ d3 ? the Spanish colonies. JTotwith- 
Vnnw S mS\ le - S ° f bl °°‘\" llich lmite the royal families of 
to tnl e Spam cven French priests were not permitted 
with k R newf-lV, c' a P f t J 0f the N «w World, where man 
Ian c tit fe l l : md shelter - Be yond the At- 
’ V ITlute . d States of America afford the only asylum 
to misfortune. . A government, strong because it is free con- 
fo tiS ” ll, “ e to f “' ” «*** 
8ta)Inf h H e end eavoured above to give some notions of the 
provini if estivation oi mdigo, cotton, and sugar, in the 
proimme of Caracas. Before we quit the valley of Annum 
n! I 116 # 01 ™ 8 coast > i1: romains for us to speak of the 
SvefatCaA at twenty-five piastres for the price 
tion of n.? dl \ W !, find tllat the total ™lue of the exporta- 
tion ot cacao, by the six ports of the Capitania General of 
these snm-i= r >, W ' e ^ t0 ,^ es t - The word carnival has the same meaning, 
P eing always held just before the commencement of Lent. 
t Dolichos pruriens (cowage). 
theclcao n °^ he ca pit*nia-gcneral, consequently not including 
of Yarina? 1 of Cumana > the province of Barcelona, of Maracaybo, 
annas, and of Spanish Guiana. 
