His residence in San Diego, at which we have been domesticated for nearly a week, is just on the ege of the town built in the Spanish style, one story high, and with heavy massive walls, around the sides of a quadrangle, into which most of the windows open. Everything here is conducted with such ease that we feel as much at home as if we had lived here for months. Nothing is omitted, which could conduce to our comfort, and in the elegance with which Senora Bandini presides over her household and entertains her guests, we found our ideas of grace and dignity of the Spanish ladies fully realized.

San Diego is a little Spanish town of about a thousand inhabitants, built in a straggling style and with a perfectly foreign air. The houses are mostly constructed of adobe, a kind of brick, hardened in the sun, except here and there some white painted-clapboard tells us of the occupancy of one of our countrymen. [next]

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