The girls did not seem at all bashful or afraid of the boys, and though they could not talk together very much they got along with the sign language, and the ladies seemed very fond of the _Americanos_.
There was a fort here, a regular moss-backed old concern, and the soldiers were bare footed and did not need much clothing.
The cattle that were taken on board here were made to swim out to the ship, and then, with a rope around their horns, hoisted on deck, a distance of perhaps forty feet above the water.

The maddened brutes were put into a secure stall ready for the ship's butcher.

The small boys came around the ship in canoes, and begged the passengers to throw them out a dime, and when the coin struck the water they would dive for it, never losing a single one.

One man dropped a bright bullet and the boy who dove for it was so enraged that he called him a d----d Gringo (Englishman.) None of these boys wore any clothes.
This town, like all Spanish towns, was composed of one-story houses, with dry mud, fire-proof walls.

The country around looked very mountainous and barren, and comfortably warm.
After two days we were called on board, and soon set sail for sea again; and now, as we approached the equator, it became uncomfortably warm and an awning was put over the upper deck.