For her friends and mine: a book of aspirations, dreams and memories . are gettingused to shocking things. If you imagine the smaller childrenof Staughton street (five or six years and under) going about the 49 yards and streets stark naked, you will have a good idea of whatwe see here every day. We often see ten or twelve in a walkabout town, sometimes entirely naked, and again clothed withshoes, or a pair of ear rings or a bracelet of beads. The place is extremely isolated. There is no railroad, norare there good roads, only mule-trails back into the country,and boats stop at infrequent inte
For her friends and mine: a book of aspirations, dreams and memories . are gettingused to shocking things. If you imagine the smaller childrenof Staughton street (five or six years and under) going about the 49 yards and streets stark naked, you will have a good idea of whatwe see here every day. We often see ten or twelve in a walkabout town, sometimes entirely naked, and again clothed withshoes, or a pair of ear rings or a bracelet of beads. The place is extremely isolated. There is no railroad, norare there good roads, only mule-trails back into the country,and boats stop at infrequent intervals. If one has good luckhe can get a letter to Washington in twelve days. The popu-lation is 4,000, and there is one coach and one cart in town forriding. I dont know any better place to get into a new worldthan here, if one is after sensations. We shall probably remainhere for several weeks as there is much disease among the palms,and everything goes on in the slow Spanish way, manana(tomorrow) being always better than today for going anywhereor doing 50
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