Ch. IX.] RETURN TO JUIGALPA. 175 



she carried me safely into Juigalpa, where I found dinner 

 awaiting me. It took me until midnight to skin the 

 birds I had shot during the day ; and as I had been up 

 since six in the morning, I was quite ready for, and took 

 kindly to, my hard leathern couch. 



