Vegueta market

Las Palmas, 1887 The markets afford a never-ending delight. There is the fish market with its strangely bright-coloured denizens of the deep. Some of that mullet will appear for your breakfast, and a better kind is not to be had. Then the fruit market, with its cartloads and great heaps of oranges, grapes, figs, melons, bananas, and everything in season in profusion, strikes a beholder for the first time with a feeling of surprise, and desire to partake of each kind in turn, that is never forgotten. Fruit, in addition to choice early vegetables, will speedily appear in such abundance in these realms that the Canaries will be held in high esteem as new market gardens opened by swift steamers.

There is a third building, a large shed with open sides, where fresh milk, beans, boots, shoes, empty bottler, tinware, stoneware, leather-work, cloth-work, and clocks are sold. It appears to be a mixed market, conducted somewhat after the manner of an Eastern bazaar.

John Whitford,  The Canary Islands as a Winter Resort (1890)