VENEZUELA.
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" That,
sii'
? "
replied he, with a
" That
is
number
of cases there at present."
It
beaming countenance.
the Small-pox Hospital, but there ain't no great
was some alleviation of our misery that we took our
meals in a building
much
higher up the
hill,
quently, cooler than the warehouse in which cuisine
we
tolerable, the poverty of the native
was
and, conseslept.
The
suppHes being
eked out with European stores. The wine was hot
;
but there
were good Clicquot and Khenish wines in abundance, and
made us undiscriminating. no Enghshmen at La Guaira,
intense thirst
There are
No
no out-of-door amusements. or
sails,
for
and, consequently,
one walks,
The Europeans, who
pleasure.
Germans from Hamburg,
confine
themselves
smoldng, drinking, playing whist and bilHards. quite easy to have a good place for driving
sea-shore, but everybody
make
tries to
rides, rows,
are cliiefly strictly to
It
would be
and riding by the
the approach to the
sea as inaccessible as possible.
In
my first
walk I took a look
reason for congratulating quarters. garlic
It
at the hotel,
myseK
that I
and saw ample
had found other
was a very poor posada indeed, and the reek of
made me
Garlic, by-the-by, is as dear
quite giddy.
shamrock
to a Venezvielan as the feels surprised that it is
to
an Irishman, and one
not adopted as the national emblem.
I was assm^ed by a traveller that he had exhausted his
means
ventive powers in devising flavoured with this herb, but
all
to escape eating of dishes
in vain.
and when half starved, he determined the fatal fragrance pursued
ment
as well as disgust.
him
At
egg before attempting to eat
still,
last, it,
in-
As to
a dernier ressort,
hve on eggs, but
much
to his astonish-
on carefully examining an
he found that the small end