CHAPTER XXXIX.--How the Americans take their Holidays.--The Hotel is

their Mecca.--Mammoth Hotels.--Jacksonville and St. Augustine.--The Ponce de Leon Hotel.--Rocking-chairs.--Having a "Good Time!"--The American is never Bored.--The Food is not very Salt, but the Bill is very Stiff.--The Negroes of the South.--Prodigious Memories.--More "Duchesses."--The Negresses.--I Insult a Woman.