He procured for me an excellent middle-aged laundress, who came and brought the linen herself, and, bowing to the floor, said always, "Buenos dias, Senorita!" dwelling on the latter word, as a gentle compliment to a younger woman, and then, "Mucho calor este dia," in her low, drawling voice.
Like the others, she was spotlessly clean, modest and gentle.

I asked her what on earth they did about bathing, for I had found the tub baths with the muddy water so disagreeable.

She told me the women bathed in the river at daybreak, and asked me if I would like to go with them.
I was only too glad to avail myself of her invitation, and so, like Pharoah's daughter of old, I went with my gentle handmaiden every morning to the river bank, and, wading in about knee-deep in the thick red waters, we sat down and let the swift current flow by us.

We dared not go deeper; we could feel the round stones grinding against each other as they were carried down, and we were all afraid.

It was difficult to keep one's foothold, and Capt.