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slaves richly dressed, who brought fuming chap. 
incense, coffee, conserved fruit, and pipes, to v^ — /— — ' 
all the party, profusely sprinkling us, as usual, 
with rose and orange-flower water. Being 
then informed of all our wishes, he commanded 
his interpreter to go with us to the Franciscan 
Convent of St. Salvador, a large building like a Convent of 
fortress, the gates of which were thrown open dor. ' 
to receive our whole cavalcade. Here, being 
admitted into a court, with all our horses and 
camels, the vast portals were again closed, and 
a party of the most corpulent friars we had 
ever seen, from the warmest cloisters of Spain 
and of Italy, waddled round us, and heartily 
welcomed our arrival. 
From the court of the Convent we were next 
conducted, by a stone staircase, to the refectory, 
where the monks who had received us intro- 
duced us to the Superior, not a whit less 
corpulent than any of his companions. The 
influence which a peculiar mode of life has 
upon the constitution, in this climate, might be 
rendered evident by contrasting one of these 
jolly fellows with the Propaganda Missionaries. 
The latter are as meagre and as pale, as the 
former are corpulent and ruddy. The life 
of the missionaries is necessarily a state of 
