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GUATEMALA. 
travelled in Central France will have some idea of the 
privies of Central America, where they exist in any form 
— indeed, if it were not for the hungry dogs, who act 
as scavengers, the streets would be in a most disgusting 
condition. 
Sketch Map of the Lago de Atitlan. 
All this day the mountains were clear; but on the mor¬ 
row the clouds came down again. We called on the Jefe 
to say our adios, and found that neither he nor his secre¬ 
tary could tell us the names of the immense volcanoes 
before his very eyes every time he went out of his house- 
door. However, he called in an old Indio, who pointed 
out the distant Fuego, Agua, and Pacaya, and the nearer 
Atitlan, San Pedro, and Santa Clara. All these volcanoes 
