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 stood up, with extended arms, in the posture of crucifixion, to mortify the flesh after the regale which it had taken. Three or four of the community generally ate upon their knees, with a cross upon their shoulders, a cilice bandage across the eyes, a bit in the mouth, and sometimes a saddle upon the back, in token that they had become as beasts, because of the sins which they had committed while leading a secular life.

A part of this desart is so laid out, as to represent the different scenes of the Passion, from the agony in the garden to the crucifixion. The Father who obtains permission to visit these stations, sets out bare-headed and bare-footed, with his hands tied behind him, and a rope round his neck, and when he comes to Pilate's Palace he is crowned with thorns, and the Cross placed on his shoulders.

What has been said thus far of Busaco, would in this country only provoke