The Republican journal., 1896-07-30
BELIZE.
tisfera'> corner OF Central America.
me In Negro Colony,

VI" LIE In a Negro Colony,
dependence of The Journal
IIrIsu HONDURAS, June
,eize as in other excessively
es the early Bird business
-...tvI Lat overdone. Shops and
r.a one before old SOL begins
.e virtually closed during
, when business is most active
..-..u cities. and throughout the
the day nobody is to be seen ON
-.- Except now and then a half
.n- ,hutfiing along on the shady
. -rcat iron market house, which
luial government upwards of
rowded at the first peep of
ute deserted after seven a. IN.
mate as this fruit and vege-
t- On The parent stem until re-
5,e, and every thing in the
-.e,h and fowl must be dis
a, quickly as possible. Fish,
lie sea 50 close at hand at
clock IN the morning, will
.e pr tile same days dinner
Hemliy kept, and certainly
.r fal use the next day unless
Gykled. The strict municipal
Gown prohibit both fishing
ICON Sunday, and consequent
ants turn vegetarians, per
le lay in the seven. Knowing
-Ae most interesting sights of
market place, as illustrating
I'D ways of the common peo-
4sed to that of Belize, I'M
-teI breakfast on our first
.ere.-aud We're astonished to
building empty both of peo-
ucts. Expressing our dissap-
TO lie Consul, he enquired the
visit, about 10 O clock, and
advised us to Try it again, SIX
lgL which, by the way, we did,
satisfactory results.
.-lenely early rising makes the
ather inconvenent. until one
rcustomed to them. Your
4eauty- sleep is broken up by
.ey arrival Of coffee and bread,
rAe bedside at $50 a. Nun
3ve ordered it for an hour or
..ri. as the natives do when they
anywhere or have special bust
usact. Breakfast comes at nine
80 at latest, when the work
!ay is supposed to be entirely
ed Dinner is served at f. 30; and
neither luncheon nor supper,
c> are that the average mortal,
the more generous, but per
healIhful, Iegeme of other sec
1. sid 20 to bed AS hungry as hun
rss he carries about with him
English friends call ''biscuit'
Ft,er, when in Rome one should
Em0ans, even to the extent of
cg4r into day, and to the MAX
.SrAsions in those dim hours
usuly owls and burglars are
a- we took a before sunrise
barracks, which are situated
s.H- northern end of the
o-lte side of a tiny bay,
Standing army is very black
OF lis men having enlisted
~b 1lt.1-1Ii+i1ip s+;t+i,,ri i'm 4 f,ii..l
fellows they are, when brist-
-.eei In tho line tall, athletic.
ug faces shining above their
KS is if freshly polished with
.iSG IL become one of the
.u's j, an honor for which any
alkey will gladly sell his
md ever afterwards look down
lut lonesome heights of supe-
N his former associates. A
ID If water fronting the bar
aeel oft with tall pickets for
I.aee We enquired why the
.I We're told that it is necessary
against sharks, which often
greedy heads between the
M being then unable to advance
a-e easily killed by the bathers.
rhe barracks and the town is a
nae Of the oldest GOD acres
seen, full of small, round
.at look precisely like Dutch
The raison d. etre is found
tiat Belize lies actually below
the nearby sea, SO the dead
utelred above ground, rather
.'0h it, and in these parts adobe
'lttul than stone. On account
eft, burials must take place upon
LAS of death, any time between
'Welve hours after breath is be-
lave left the body. 1t is to be
A1t There are few cases of suspend
a1lon in Belize; but of that one
Ne sure, as coma is a well known
cholera and kindred tropical
However the quantity of quick
is put into each coffin certain
ufes any job which the King of
may have left unfinished. Every
IS the vaults are cleaned out and
4auts of bones and grave clothes
go me it is a never ending mys-
Il all these Southern countries,
- a If te,,,