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porridge; his cooks were Indian girls that knew very little of 

 their trade ; his service consisted of two old knives and forks, 

 three plates and some half dozen saucers, with calabashes to 

 drink out of and pure water from the spring. Such is the se- 

 clusion and exile to which the Revolution has reduced this man, 

 a relation of Bolivar, and once a wealthy proprietor in the Carac- 

 cas ; yet he retained his spirits and good humour in this reverse, 

 and was a staunch patriota, in other words, foe to Old Spain. 

 His amusements are reading and sleeping, but he has, from want 

 of any exercise, broughton adizziness of the head that makes him 

 miserable in the heat of the day. — Have often thought how use- 

 fully, if not agreeably, a man of talent might employ himself in 

 instructing and governing so distant a community. Nothing is 

 wanting but society. The natives here are healthy and well-dis- 

 posed. Most of the men have been drawn off for military ser- 

 vice ; but the young and the women still remain, the fsver 

 having attacked here only seven men, who had driven cattle down 

 to San Miguel. Cattle abundant. Government has here above 

 3,000, and Sedeno 1,100. Soil in the hills good; in short, 

 nothing to be wished for but industry. R. is, however, not the 

 man to introduce it. At sunset, 43 boys assembled in the 

 church to sing the evemng hynans ; aud at seven all the women 

 came to evening prayers at the residence. Tumeremo was the 

 last mission established in these parts; its date, 1788; pro- 

 selytes of the Guayano tribe. Population, in 1803, 416 only. 

 Houses single, and 63 in number. Church and conventual 

 buildings built parallel and adjacent, but the latter too much 

 exposed to the sun. Garden large, and containing excellent 

 oranges. Here is also a tannery, and soap manufacture ; but 

 R. directs his efforts chiefly to the manufacture of hammocks ; 

 forty people have been employed two months in the making of 

 two only. The extensive cattle pen, the posts of which have 

 grown into trees, gives this mission a more lively air than the 

 rest ; and the contented cheerful countenances of the girls, 

 form an agreeable contrast to what we had met with in the 

 north. 

 2-lth. To recruit our beasts, and do honour to our host. 



