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and if I did not like it, I would accept of 

 the offer he was fo good to make me. The 

 thing that gave him this high opinion 

 of me was, that as he had been fo civil 

 to us, I was very officious in affifting to 

 drive in thofe mules that ilravcd from 

 the reft upon thofe large plains we pa fled 

 over; and this I thought was the Icaft I 

 could do towards making fome returns for 

 the obligations we were under to him. 



When we got into St. Jago, the car- 

 rier delivered vis to the captain of the 

 guard, at the palace gate; and he foon 

 after introduced us to the prcfident, Don 

 Jofeph Manfo, who received us very ci- 

 villy, and then fent us to the houfe where 

 captain Cheap and Mr. Hamilton were. 

 We found them extremely well lodg- 

 ed at the houfe of a Scotch phyfi- 

 cian, whofe name was don Patri- 

 ck) Gedd. This gentleman had been 

 a long time in this city, and was 

 greatly efteerned by the Spaniards, as 



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