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buying and selling. Mule-trains came in and went out, 
and it seems that this is the great wheat-market. This 
grain ( trigo ) is small and round, and the Government offi¬ 
cials weighed each bag, which should contain six arrobas, 
or one hundred and fifty pounds. Fat-pine ( ocote ) is 
also an important article of commerce here, as it is the 
principal source of candle-light among the Indios. 
Solola and Atitlan. 
The church is large, but of no architectural preten¬ 
sions ; and among its contents we noticed several strange 
things. A figure of Christ, with glass eyes and long 
human hair, wore a crown cocked over his left eye like 
a drunken man. On the wall of the nave was a water- 
color drawing passably done, representing a young man 
falling headlong over a precipice, while through a sort of 
Lutheran window, or peep-hole, in the sky a rather young 
female is trying to catch him with a long vine. The 
