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INDIANS OF ECUADOR 253
barbacoa), extending
across one end of the room.
No. i was my bed, made neat and comfortable with
my own bedding (which I always carried about
with me, and was half a mule-load). In No. 2
slept two young fellows the Padre's servants on
and in No. 3 slept his two maid-
sheep-skins ;
servants, at right angles to the men, and with their
feet towards them. No. 4 is a bench whereon
reposed my lad. No. 5 is a curtained four-post bed,
Door
Corridor
o o o o d
l-'n,. 13.
occupied by the Padre's maiden sister, of the matronly
age of ; twenty-one years complete and No. 6 a
small recess, jutting on the external corridor, where
a young fellow the Padre's nephew extended his
lazy length on a barbacoa ; but even this place was
open to the main room, having a doorway but no
cloor. I afterwards transferred my bed to No. 6,
on the Padre's suggestion that it was snugger and
more retired !
TIIK INDIANS OF THE E< TADOKKAX AMU -
[I cannot find in Spruce's MSS. or notes any
account of the natives of the highlands of^Ecuaclor.
deal of them as
although he must have seen a good
muleteers or porters during his very numerous