About four o'clock
After bedevilling the officials for a time , our business for the day was over . We had the privilege of sauntering through the streets , of walking down the peninsula or of seating ourselves in any of the numerous bars or gambling halls . All were interesting ; though neither the streets nor the gambling places were in full action until late afternoon . About four o'clock , or half after , when the invariable siesta was over , the main street began to fill with idlers . The natives wore white , with wide soft straw hats , and lounged along with considerable grace . They were a weak , unenergetic , inoffensive race , always ready to get off the sidewalk for other nations provided the other nations swaggered sufficiently . The women , I remember , had wonderful piles of glossy black hair , arranged in bands and puffs , in which they stuck cigars .