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then over again after another piece. It was a very clever feat and performed with astonishing agility. We resolved to go ashore so down the gangway we went and of all the scuffling who should have us would have scared a nervous person like me I dont think. The row ashore as quite a treat. We had a good row with the rowers when when we got ashore but we would not pay till we went back to the ship & we promised faithfully to go back by them. Terrafirma reached we had a run to stretch our legs and then made our way along the shore into the town. The houses are built chiefly of a kind of a kind of mixture of clay & small stones after the fashion of concrete build ings. Some had plaster over it and others were left bare. Some were painted of various designs & colours. They are roofed with tiles and the doors & window frames