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hourly striking of the city clocks, and zealously destroyed all the insects which are generated by the heat of a tropical climate.
The per contra is that they themselves are rather malodorous.
During my stay in Samana a singular woman attached herself to me. She was a mulatto, and her home was on a mountain side in the neighborhood of the school of which I have just spoken.
Here she was rarely to be found; and her husband bewailed her frequent absences and consequent neglect of her large family.
She had some knowledge of herbs, which she occasionally made available in nursing the sick.
She one day brought her aged mother to visit me, and the elder woman, speaking of her, said, ‘Oh, yes!
Rosanna's got edication.’
Of this ‘edication’ I had a specimen in a letter which she wrote me after my departure, and which began thus, ‘Hailyal [hallelujah], Mrs. Howe, here's hopin.’
In these days the brilliant scheme of the Samana Bay Company came to its final failure.
The Dominican government now insisted that the flag of the company should be officially withdrawn.
The Tybee having departed on her homeward voyage, the one warship of the republic made its appearance in the harbor, a miserable little schooner, but one that carried a gun.
On the morrow of her arrival, a scene of some interest was enacted.
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