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Title: Amy and Marion's voyage around the world
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Adams, Sarah B
Subjects: Voyages around the world
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ned over it like a tightly-drawn overskirt, a loose jacket, and a handker-chief above that, with the ends crossed in front,complete the costume. The men all wear theirshirts hanging airily outside their trousers, andlook as if it were the chief business of life tokeep cool and lounge on street corners, amusingthemselves with fighting-cocks. The Calzadas, a wide, shady avenue, leads fromthe dingy town into rural scenes, where on eitherhand stretch rice-fields of brilliant green, andthatched huts of the Indians are upon the road-side among tall bamboos, wide-spreading mangotrees, and the great, glossy leaves of the plan-tain. There are the well-built and painteddwellings of the better class of Indians, or of theMestizos, a race of people partly Tagal andpartly European, many of whom are very wealthy,and in the midst of the luxuriant gardens are afew large houses occupied by foreign merchants.Into one of these we drove after coming to thesuburban village of Santa Ana; into it, literally,
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Tagal Women. — Page 328 Manila. 331 for instead of a front door is an archway throughwhich the carriage passes into a stone-paved hall,and we, alighting there, were led up a flight ofstone steps to the second floor, always the dwell-ing place in Manila houses. At the head ofthem stood a lady to receive us, and never, I amsure, did two sea-faring girls find themselveswelcomed into a more beautiful home. From a wide hall that they call the cayeda open, spacious apartments on either hand, withpolished floors and cane furniture, from any oneof which we step into a tiled corridor where thesliding sashes are thrown back to admit the airand light. There are no glass panes in them, forin this region of earthquakes that article is gen-erally dispensed with because of its frailty, andits place supplied by oyster-shells, ground andpolished, and each fitted into its own socket.They are not transparent, and light is subduedby them as much as if they were of thick groundglass, which must be an ob

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