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Laguna is a fmall town, but well built, the 

 people drefs well, and feem to live in great 

 plenty ; the country round it is uncommcnTy 

 beautiful, and every thing- feems to confpire to 

 render the place rich and flourifning. 



At Laguna we difmilTed our dr-.goons r.nd 

 Indians, bv Whom I wrote a letter of thanks to 

 the Governor of i?/<? Grande^ acknowledging all 

 the favours we had received from him and hi:^- 

 garrifon. At the fame tiitie I alTured him that 

 our journey had, inflead of abounding in hard-* 

 fhips, been exceedingly pkafant and entertain-* 

 ing- Had I been able to forefee the inconve- 

 niences we were to meet with the next day, I 

 might not perhaps have wrote fo gaily. 



From Lngiina we took frefh guides, who, as" 

 \Tcll as the former, were dragoons ; we alfo had" 

 freili horfes, and on the m.orning of Sunday, 

 October 1 6th, we refumed our journey. About 

 noon we arrived at Villa Ncvdy a village miOlt 

 beautifully fituateel on the fide of a hill, where 

 we refted during the heat of the day, and then 

 again changing horfes and guides, we ruihccj 

 into fcenes new to us. Our road lay .through 

 immenfe forefVs, where the path was fo narrow 

 as to preclude the poffibility of two going 

 abreafl ; in many places it was indeed alm.oft 

 too narrow for one; and Mr. Black was once li- 

 terally jammed between two trees, fo that it re- 



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