They first passed through the "black town," with its narrow streets, its miserable, dirty huts, and squalid population; then through the "European town," which presented a relief in its bright brick mansions, shaded by coconut-trees and bristling with masts, where, although it was early morning, elegantly dressed horsemen and handsome equipages were passing back and forth.
El carruqie atravesó primeramente la ciudad "negra" de calles estrechas formadas por unos casuchos donde pululaba una población cosmopolita, sucia y andrajosa, y luego pasó por la ciudad europea, embellecida con casas de ladrillos, adornada de palmeras, erizadas de arboladuras, y que, a pesar de la hora, temprana, estaba ya recorrida por elegantes jinetes y magníficos can uqies.