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JOURNEY. 



FOURTH L e t us suppose for an instant, that it 'is a 

 new species. Well ; " Una golondrina no hace 

 verano ;" one swallow does not make summer, as 

 Sancho Panza says. Still, for all that, it would 

 be well worth while going out to search for it ; 

 and these times of Pasco- Peruvian enterprise are 

 favourable to the undertaking. Perhaps, gentle 

 readers, you would wish me to go in quest of 

 another. I would beg leave respectfully to an- 

 swer, that the way is dubious, long, and dreary ; 

 and though, .unfortunately, I cannot allege the 

 excuse of " me pia conjux detinet," still I would 

 fain crave a little repose. I have already been a 

 long while errant : - 



" Longa mihi exilia, et vastum maris sequor aravi, 

 Ne mandate mihi, nam ego sum defessus agendo." 



Should any body be induced to go, great and 

 innumerable are the discoveries yet to be made 

 in those remote wilds ; and should he succeed in 

 bringing home, even a head alone, with features 

 as perfect as those of that which I have brought, 

 far from being envious of him, I should consider 

 him a modern Alcides, fully entitled to register a 

 thirteenth labour. Now if, on the other hand, 

 we argue, that this head in question has had all 

 its original features destroyed, and a set of new 

 ones given to it, by what means has this hitherto 

 unheard-of change been effected ? Nobody in 

 any of our museums has as yet been able to 



