IN AND ABOUT THE CITY. 
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TRANSPORTATION. 
every month. The whole population was infatuated; the poorer classes 
clubbed together to buy tickets; and even the slaves were purchasers; it 
is recorded that a band of slaves once drew the first prize of $60,000 and 
bought their freedom. Another story is told of a man who drew a $10,000 
prize and bought a coffee estate, got into a lawsuit over the boundaries, 
gained his suit, but had to pay all the expenses, which took the entire 
$10,000 and was then ready to begin over again. The lottery has been 
revived under the second Republic as a government enterprise for the 
raising of public revenue. 
Streets and Paseos. —We shall find the most to interest us in the 
quaint streets of the old part of the city, the districts which were intra- 
muros—within the walls. In some of the streets, which are so nar¬ 
row that it would be impossible for one team to pass another, vehicles 
are permitted to go in one way only, the direction being indicated by 
the corner signs Subida, up, and Baja, down, with reference to the bay. 
On the sidewalk it is often impracticable for two persons to pass; one 
of them must go into the street, and the expression to “take the wall” 
of a person is given a significance not before understood. As the 
patios of the houses are paved, there is little absorption of the rainfall 
in the ground, and it must run off through the streets; a depth of two 
feet of water with a very rapid current is sometimes found in some of 
