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LETTERS FROM 
might annoy an enemy considerably. I 
have seen only one of these mortars, which 
is by the water-side, very near our house. It 
is about three feet in diameter, and six or 
eight in depth. But I am informed that 
stone mortars very much larger than this 
were formerly in existence in some parts of 
the coast. 
On the 16th of last month I witnessed a 
grand procession in commemoration of St. 
Paul’s arrival on the island. The company 
were headed by a party of shoemakers, tailors, 
carpenters, and other tradesmen, all dressed 
in white robes, followed by monks of various 
orders, Capuchins, Franciscans, Carmelites, 
Augustines, and Dominicans. Then, borne 
on the shoulders of about twenty men, came 
the statue of St. Paul, a wooden figure, larger 
than life, adorned with a gorgeous flowered 
robe, and having by his side a representation 
