The count

TWENTY NINE- mosquito bites on my left leg.
THIRTY SEVEN- mosquito bites on my right leg. This is neither approximation nor exaggeration. I believe I fed half the rainforest this weekend. Even the pharmacist was shocked.
TENTH- of August 1810. The day quitenos rose up agains the Spaniards-- the first such revolt in Latin America. Now the Ecuadorian national day.