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unable to reply. Thus receiving his life affected him more than he could 

 have been affected by losing it on the banco. 



We were all closely confined, and expected to be shot or privately assassinated 

 every day; nevertheless we were not dispirited, but were determined to 

 emulate each other in dying with resolution. We were all resolved to 

 imitate the noble example of our chief, who viewed death without terror, 

 and met him rather as a friend who was to release him from the insolence 

 and ingratitude of an ungrateful country. — But no ! Chile was not, nor 

 ever can be, ungrateful to Carrera ! Oppression may shackle her, and 

 tyranny break the spirit of her inhabitants ; yet her best sons, to the latest 

 posterity, will venerate his name who first drew the sword in defence of her 

 rights. 



The government at Buenos Ayres sent a reprimand to Mendoza for their 

 barbarous conduct towards us ; saying, that no such power existed in the 

 government of Mendoza as to authorise them in such an absolute manner to 

 dispose of the lives of Americans ; and that in the numerous revolutions of 

 Buenos Ayres, there could not be produced, to degrade the Portenian cha- 

 racter, a single circumstance similar to the death of Carrera. 



A large proportion of the inhabitants of Mendoza were in our favour, and 

 openly declared we should not be put to death. The Indians also (who had 

 been in search of us) came to the frontier near San Carlos, and sent a de- 

 putation into Mendoza to demand our liberty. The government had the 

 head and arm of Carrera taken down immediately, and delivered to Madame 

 Fuentacilla, who had them interred with his body, lest the Indians should 

 see them. They succeeded in deceiving the Indian deputies, by assuring 

 them that we were not in the town, and telling them that we were all in 

 Chile. 



Five of our officers had been taken by the San Juaninos on the field of battle 

 at Punto del Medano. The governor of San Juan was enraged with his 

 officers for sparing their lives, and knew not how he could with an appear- 

 ance of justice put them to death. He, however, soon found a plan which 

 answered his purpose : he sent for them to the barrack, where they were pri- 

 soners, to wait on him at his house ; and coming there, he gave them billets 

 to certain houses, where they might live at their liberty. The officers were 

 grateful for the favour which they received, and retired ; but two days after 

 were taken up, brought to the plaza, and shot, for having formed a revolu- 

 tion to depose Governor Sanches, their liberator ! 



