Note XXXI-48 — Chapter XXXI · JUDICIAL AND MILITARY. 1887.

The army might be raised to 30,000 or 40,000 men. Pan. Star and Herald, June 2, 1886. The practice has been to send out press-gangs, to seize men and force them into the ranks, thus forming as motley a set as can well be imagined; some have shirts, some jackets, and others neither. Most of them probably have breeches, but exceedingly short at the legs. Wells' Hond., 238-40; Laferrière, De Paris à Guatém., 100-1; Squier's Trav., ii. 183-4.