Several oil paintings were hanging in the church, but so darkened by the hand of time that it was impossible to make out whether they were of any artistic merit.

Wonderful men those early missionaries, who brought such valuables into this wilderness, over hundreds and thousands of miles, on the backs of mules or Indians.

It was rather anomalous to see the poor, naked Indians outside the door, for whose benefit all this had been done.

A woman was sweeping away the dirt from the swarms of bats that nested in the ceiling.
The richest and most prominent man in the village enjoyed the reputation of being a great ladron.

When I called on him I found him in bed suffering from a tooth-ache.