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VENEZUELA.
230
ill
the
Let us hope his residence
far-famed valley.
meet with a better destiny than Bolivar's
Our dinner
consisted of stewed potatoes,
This was
diminutive fragment of a fowl lay in ambush.
to call
My German
on a Dane, who had a pretty
The father had been a posadero and
daughter.
open a magasin de nouveautes, which, though
was considered a step up
tive,
remunera-
morning of the
5 on the
by
15th, having been literally devoured
stifled
fleas,
stupendous
my hammock,
and
effected a
left
me
to fight
lodgment
me would
which placed
efforts of the vernuii that
in
have been
it
my
me
with
Had
and suffocated with innumerable stenches.
not been for
floor,
less
to
in the land of equahty.
I awoke, or rather, arose, at
heat,
was
his wife
They had soon saved up money enough
the cocinera^
!
among which some
washed down with bad beer and worse wine. companion walked out
will
pero quien sabe
it
above the most
covered the patriotic
who had
out with those
ah'eady
clothes, I believe that nothing of
left after
that sanguinary encounter.
Escaping from the posada as soon as possible, I walked about I
till it
was time to breakfast with the Dane, of
had hired mules
excellent,
who had
me
to carry
to Caracas.
The meat was
and I observed that the daughter of the house, so skilfully prepared the cotelettes de mouton,
reserved the sheep's eyes for a young gentleman table with us,
He
informed
of Apiire,
whom
and who repaid
me
les
who
had
sate at
yeux doux with interest.
that he had just retm-ned from the province
and that
Sotillo,
who
reigns there after the fashion
of Paez, had been enquiring for his share of the loan, and
would probably
raise
disturbances
portion were set aside for limi.
which had been continually
unless
At 3
a
p.m.
considerable
my
luggage,
in the rear ever, since the fracas