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heard and asked me: "Is this the smallest you have? Goods displayed in shops bear no price labels. I notice as in Spain and France many loitering soldiers and officers. Their uniforms are less expensive than in Spain. In the street notice some students bare-headed, their hair bobbed a black frock coat and ditto trouser, and a black manta [[strikeover]] throwing [[/strikeover]] or gown thrown over it all. They seem dignified and well behaved in the street and look as sober as judges. Their hair combed back and cut straight at the neck.
May 8. Walked to the docks and wharves. Picturesque sight. Tagus a much animated river but mostly 
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small craft. This makes it picturesque. Fresh caught fish is brought in in small fishing sail-boats at the sloping wharves where lively women drop it in flat baskets which they balance on their heads coiffed with funny little flat narrow brimmed hats. The latter serve as head gear and as cushion for their freight. They walk barefooted, and with a swinging gait while balancing their baskets without touching the latter with their hands. and march off to the nearby fish market or to different customers in town.
Most of the sloops have no bowsprit but have a forestay sail and a much raking mast a very long gaff and no boom. The