[XXIX-9] 'Sitting at the window in the afternoon and evening to recover from the fatigue of it.' Id., 195.
[XXIX-10] Breakfast bill of fare: boiled rice and beans, salads, bread, butter, cheese, tortillas, coffee and milk, fruit. Dinner: soup, beef, salad, a variety of vegetables. There are other dishes, such as ollas fried with garlic, piccadillo of half-cooked lights, oil, rice, and plantains, baked slices of liver, salchichas or blood puddings with plenty of garlic, catamales filled with bits of fat meat and cheese, boiled meat, broth, etc.; the repast concludes with sweetmeats and coffee. Wines and liquors are generally of poor quality. The rum of the country is the most harmless. Cooking is generally done on an adobe fogon, or range, in a small building behind the dwelling-house. Id., 192-4.
[XXIX-11] The couriers, wearing leathern caites, travel that distance every day, at a gait between a fast walk and a run.
[XXIX-12] Gloves fringed around the cuffs with silver, and a small riding-whip, complete the attire. To ride and dance well are parts of the Central American's education. Id., 201, 227.
[XXIX-13] Religious feasts are common, and the people seem to be close observants of the ceremonies, and yet cannot be said to be as much priest-ridden as other Central Americans.
[XXIX-14] Even manacled prisoners are permitted, under guard, to beg for money to relieve their condition.
[XXIX-15] Good colored servants brought in from abroad soon fall into the indolent habits of the blacks surrounding them. The stranger then finds that his man 'Bob Long has become Don Roberto Longorio.'
[XXIX-16] An official document sets the whole population on the 1st of Jan., 1886, at 1,322,544 souls. Guat., Mem. Sec. Fomento, 1886, annex no. 1.
[XXIX-17] Among those traders are a number of European Spaniards, who are every year joined by some of their relations from the old country.
[XXIX-18] Of mild disposition, good natural talents, aptitude for learning, and lively imagination. Hospitality is one of their virtues. Montgomery's Narr., 157-60.