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214 Saturday Nov 1st,- Rains this morning some showers"- also have showers through the night- this has been an unpleasant day, raining most of the time, and as could not find anything for amusement here,/ being obliged to keep in the tents for shelter,/ found it to be a long and tedious day- all could find to amuse ourselves, was in watching the Natives about here this' as have saud before, is a new route, passengers having crossed here but once, or twice, before and in the place Virgin Bay so called" on the Lake "Nicaragua", the proposed landing place for the Lake Steamers for the transit of passengers & freight to and from, Ocean, to Ocean,/ is but one building and that, a small one story, brick, store house, belonging to the Co and his wife lives in one corner of this building partitioned off- he would not let any of the passengers, sleep in this building nights,- so of course we were obliged, if possible, to find shelter under some of the Natives tents here, and they charged us fifty cents a night, for the privilege and we could lay on the ground, or stand up, all night, as we chose- I lay upon the ground one or two nights, found it so wet I began to grow stiff & lame, and finding the Landlord had one or two hammocks, I engaged one of them of him paying one dollar, a night, in advance, and thout myself fortunate then ever- and as the Steamer has not made its appearance yet, have it engaged for tonight