Since the government permits it and even in a way recommends it, by providing that the spectacle may take place only in the _public plazas_, on _holidays_ (in order that all may see it and be encouraged by the example ?), _from the high mass until nightfall (eight_ hours), let us proceed thither to seek out some of our acquaintances.
The cockpit of San Diego does not differ from those to be found in other towns, except in some details.

It consists of three parts, the first of which, the entrance, is a large rectangle some twenty meters long by fourteen wide.

On one side is the gateway, generally tended by an old woman whose business it is to collect the _sa pintu_, or admission fee.

Of this contribution, which every one pays, the government receives a part, amounting to some hundreds of thousands of pesos a year.

It is said that with this money, with which vice pays its license, magnificent schoolhouses are erected, bridges and roads are constructed, prizes for encouraging agriculture and commerce are distributed: blessed be the vice that produces such good results! In this first enclosure are the vendors of buyos, cigars, sweetmeats, and foodstuffs.