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« -.i!’ svV V -v^,;e aew tvo us, cxhaied a delicious nuii tiue i’roui ihc
- dens wliich bordered tlicse deligiittid avciuies. xknuirecomibjTnui -:
csidenco in a liot climate could not ^vcU be imagined, l>ut I am sorry
to say that the fascination'was greatly lessened by tlie very filthy stale
of the dwellings and of the people w’ho occii})ied them. In one ofthese
huts there was a spinning-wheel and a hand-loom. ’.vith some grass cloth
of the country in a forward state of preparation for use.
- Several little children accompanied us ilirougli liiese delightfully
cool lanes, ranning before us catching hutteriiiA*s, or ])ickiiig fiowers,
which th(‘v prto'sitonod wbj-» a lov- Chinese salam, and then ran away
hiu-ri '.''. ■ ■ ' . /. such tiling's. We afterwards
ci‘o*r- ' r-_ •'.‘re several horses and jackasses
bearing panniers; but we .*bv. .. nor the marks of
any wheels, nor do 1 believe '.¡ler«* art' aov ¡i i )ioo. The horses,
eso the natives, were very diniiiim .)• - ''mwcu very little bloo.
3 r a l peasants, both male and female, ‘.w u -..•i-rjir in the plto....
tions as we passed through them, neither of A\iiinto a * -
avoid us, and we had an opportunity of beholding, for rhe ni'7- ■
sevpr>l Leo C'loo women. They were of the labouring ck,!'
c .w. not lie most attractive specimens of tlieir sex :
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