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Cochrane has ordered some tents to be pitched on the sea-shore ; 

 whither the goods will be taken immediately, and at least part of the 

 family will also go. I have been busy in my vocation, and have the 

 pleasure to see my invalid gradually improving in health. 



2d. — At length we have divided the enormous party of Quintero. 

 The dining-room is carried down and placed by the tents ; and the 

 D s are left in quiet possession of the house, along with the over- 

 seer of the estate, Avho has established a salting-house here, where he 

 has cured about ten thousand dollars' worth of beef, as fine as any Irish 

 beef I ever saw. Our new settlement forms a line along the sea- 

 beach in the following order : first, the dining rancho nearest to the 

 hill, where a fisherman's hut serves as a kitchen, and where there is 

 a well of sweet water ; next, stands a very large tent, across which 

 a screen is placed, thus forming two apartments for Glennie and 

 me ; Lord Cochrane inhabits the second tent ; the third is appropri- 

 ated to packages, and a guard sleeps there ; the fourth is Mr. Jack- 

 son's ; the fifth, Don Fausto's ; the sixth, Carillo's ; and Don Benito 

 has pitched his out of the line behind the rest : so that now every 

 person has his own separate apartment ; and every body may meet 

 the rest in the rancho when it is agreeable. The sea reaches to 

 within a few yards of our tents, rolling smoothly in, just opposite, 

 and breaking a little to the left round the rocks and the wreck of the 

 Aquila, one of the Admiral's Guayaquil prizes. The shell-fish have 

 already taken possession of her, within and without ; and we are fre- 

 quently indebted to that circumstance for one of our greatest dainties, 

 the large eatable barnacle, peculiar in Chile to the bay of Quintero, 

 and known by the name of pico. I have sent my maid to Concon to 

 take care of Mrs. Miers's children, as she was of no use here; and I 

 did not think the sort of Robin Hood life we are leading, the most 

 advisable thing in the world for -a young good-looking girl. She will 

 be safe and happy where she is. 



January 3d. — To-day I set up the lithographic press in Lord 

 Cochrane's tent, to print the following address to the Chilenos - x 

 which we hope to get ready to-morrow : — 



