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to be the drudges but take it very easy & seem in no way put about The streets were lined with various kinds of tropical trees. Very few white women excepting those from various vessels were to be seen. Some of the Portugese gentry and officials were very fair but some were nearly as black as the negroes. After strolling about the streets till I was tired another young fellow and I climbed the hillside to a place which appeared to be a kind of fort We could see the flag staff in entering the bay with its rough wall stretching round it After climbing several roads for it could not be called walking we reached the citadel of St Vincent which did our eyes good Inside were two houses comprising two rooms in each and three out of the four had nothing in but heaps