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 *[Footnote: whose impressions I here describe, whose name neither my friend Bonpland or myself can pronounce without regret, was Don Carlos Montufar (son of the Marquis of Selvalegre), an excellent young man, whose noble and ardent love of freedom led him a few years later, in the war of independence of the Spanish Colonies, to meet courageously a violent death, of which the dishonour did not fall on him.]*