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fortified wall,

about 200 yards from the old- that connects the mountainous fort

S. Paulo

with the monastery S. Francisco. This is the

leper infirmary, known to the public as Hospital de S. Lazaro. After having passed the outer brick wall through

one

of the two wooden-

gates

ates we enter the

garden

arden or

Cont

yard for

either the male or the female inhabitants, the

former occupying the left, the latter the

right wing of the building - Both these

wings

to allow

are connected in front, but not so, as

any

communication between the

inmates of different sexes. The building

itself is an in

inferior

brickwork, old and

decayed, one storied and simply divided

wards with one veerandah

into three or four wa

leading in front of them all. What with the: