Lazaretos

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The image contains news about lazarettos, my dear sir and good friend: I bet what you want, sir director, double against single, ten against one, a hundred against ten, that neither you nor anyone else can guess who I am going to ask for alms from. today for my hiring friends. Reviewing the 44 previous lists in an hour of leisure, I have found what I have already asked of half the world in these 8 months of struggle... for the lives of the lazarinos; and everyone, who more, who less, has given me. Look at these lists and you will see admirably intertwined the names of ecclesiastics and laymen, of rich and poor; They include soldiers, police officers, bankers, maids, etc. and I say nothing about the bazaar that the largest of the families of Bogotá have formed for me, and that is having such promising results; nor of the great raffle of paintings, in which all the artists of the capital have lent their hand. News published in the newspaper La Opinión, No. 25, Page 99, September 18, 1900.