SOUTH AMERICA. 2").'} 



in the room. It is but justice to add, that on THIIll) 



JOURNEY. 



opening the boxes, there was nothing injured. 



I could never get a clue to these harsh and 

 unexpected measures, except that there had been 

 some recent smuggling discovered in Liverpool ; 

 and that the man in question had been sent down 

 from London to act the part of Argus. If so, I 

 landed in an evil hour ; " nefasto die ;" making 

 good the Spanish proverb, " Pagan a las veces, 

 justos por pecadores ;" at times the innocent suffer 

 for the guilty. After all, a little encouragement, 

 in the shape of exemption from paying the duty 

 on this collection, might have been expected ; but 

 it turned out otherwise ; and after expending 

 large sums in pursuit of natural history, on my 

 return home I was doomed to pay for my 

 success : 



" Hie finis, Caroli fatorum, hie exitus ilium, 

 Sorte tulit ! " 



Thus, my fleece, already ragged and torn with 

 the thorns and briars, which one must naturally 

 expect to find in distant and untrodden wilds, was 

 shorn, I may say, on its return to England. 



However, this is nothing new ; Sancho Panza Conclusion, 

 must have heard of similar cases; for he says, 

 " Muchos van por lana, y vuelven trasquilados ;" 

 many go for wool, and come home shorn. In 

 order to pick up matter for natural history, I 

 have wandered through the wildest parts of South 



