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and side altars of poor design, sometimes painted to 
imitate marble. On one of these altars a famished cur 
was eating candle-ends; on another were the three cruci¬ 
fixes of Calvary, — the repentant thief being a young 
man of personable form and features, while the other 
was a bald-headed, bearded villain; a very impressive 
object-lesson we afterwards saw in many churches. A 
fair St. Sebastian was the only picture of tolerable 
merit. 
We called on the excellent Jefe politico, Don Luis 
Molina, who received us very politely, although our call 
must have been a great 
bore to him, as he spoke \i_ fi | I { 1 | | _ 
no English, and my Li___ 
Spanish was very lame. I __ 
The Indian women in 
the streets all dress alike, | 
— in a skirt of indigo- [ 
blue cotton, generally 
figured in the loom ; and — : ----— 
their long and abundant —.- 
black hair is carefully l i______ 
bound in red bandages | j ! 
reaching near- „ , 
® Pattern of Cloth. 
ly to the ground. Their 
stature is below medium; they seem modest and good- 
natured. The blue cloth is woven in rude looms, sev¬ 
eral of which we inspected, and the thread is dyed 
in vats of masonry in the house-yard. The threads 
are dressed in the loom and dried by a few coals in a 
potsherd placed beneath the warp. A border is woven 
at each edge, and also in the woof, at intervals, to mark 
Pattern of Cloth. 
