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and one half tons of cargo at fifteen pesos per ton. He was a very 

 good and honest man, however, and after learning that I was somewhat 

 acquainted at New Haven and New London, Connecticut, where he had 

 himself spent nine years, he was extremely obliging. On account of cer- 

 tain laws prohibiting the exportation of fossils from Argentine territory we 

 were not at all displeased with this opportunity of starting this second 

 consignment on its way home. The boxes were soon on board La Patria 

 and stored safely in her hold, having been consigned to Braun and 

 Blanchard in Sandy Point, with instructions to forward them by the first 

 steamer to New York. 



