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and a fountain was playing - Saw three companies of soldiers pass with Officers, each company seemed to have several laundresses with it-- 17th J- went out before breakfast to get a cup of chocolate, we then went to the Market, which was quite a sight & crowded with people--where the people could not find booths to spread out their wares, they had spread it out on the ground all around the square, bought a bouquet of pink roses mixed with a sweet smelling herb for 12 1/2 cts--Saw green corn, egg plant, sweet potatoes, chickens, turkeys and a variety of other things which I had never seen before. Amont them the calabash