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376 prompted rather by a curiosity of seeing the lion than the lamb.

Her curiosity was equally excited the next morning by the few ordinary articles of my dressing case, which were now reduced to those only of indispensable utility; for, in the course of my journeys, I had found little difficulty in inducing the admirers of such paraphernalia to accept of them: nevertheless I gave her a small-tooth comb which she appeared particularly to fancy, and I was honoured by her commission to bring her, on my return to the country, one of the finest pair of scissors that England could produce:—I hope she will not be disappointed.

Having the next day, the 20th July, seen Don Juan Atondo, correspondent of Mr. Bayley, of the house of Messrs. Barclay, and also the curate Don Miguel Reyna, the only padre whom I had met with at home on my route from Guatemala, we set off at four o'clock in the evening, and traversing a park-like country, reached