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21st. — One great and several lesser shocks to-day. I find my 

 English friends what may be called comfortably settled now, on 

 board the several vessels in the harbour, where they have either hired 

 the whole or part of the cabins, by way of dwelling-houses. The 

 governor of Valparaiso and his family have the sheds of the dock- 

 yard fitted up, and are living there. Many of the richer inhabitants 

 are gone to Santiago ; the poor and middling classes still continue 

 encamped on the neighbouring hills. In clearing the rubbish in the 

 town, many more dead are found than it was at first supposed there 

 could be. Some of the merchants have erected tents and wooden 

 houses in the broad parts of the streets, where they sleep at night 

 to guard their goods ; but no one ventures to pass the night in his 

 house, except Madame Pharoux, the pretty wife of the keeper of the 

 French hotel, who still appears at the bar smiling, and only shrug- 

 ging her shoulders a little at things " inouies a Paris ;" but for the 

 rest, profiting, I believe, by the commotion that has extinguished 

 most kitchen fires but her own. She has been fortunate, and de- 

 serves it. 



22d. — Only three slight shocks. The business of preparing for 

 my voyage still keeps me in Valparaiso : I pass the day packing on 

 shore, eating with my different friends afloat ; and I sleep in a 

 corner of the cabin where Mrs. D. and her family have found refuge, 

 on board the O'Higgins. Well does Sliakspeare say, " Misery ac- 

 quaints a man with strange bedfellows :" we are all, English and 

 Chilenos, men, women, and children, brought together in a way 

 that nothing but the miseries we have all felt could account for. 



c 23d. — A few very slight shocks, felt as perceptibly on board as on 

 shore. I went down to Quintero with my goods in the Lautaro's 

 launch ; we were four hours and a half on the voyage. My arrival 

 was a matter of some importance at Quintero. I had laughingly told 

 my friends there, that 1 was determined we should have a plum- 

 pudding on Christmas-day, and that I would return with sufficient 

 materials, and in good time to make it. Accordingly, the first things 

 thought of were raisins and sugar, spices and sweetmeats ; and I 



