90 SA N FERN A XDO. 



After which sight, and weary of waiting, not without some 

 fear tliat as the Kegros would have put it " If I tap da wan 

 moniant ma, I catch da confection," while of course a bucket 

 or two of hot water was emptied on us out of a passing cloud, 

 I got on board the steamer, and away to San Fernando, to wash 

 away dirt and forget fatigue, amid the hospitality of educated 

 and high-minded men, and of even more charming w^omen. 



