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We got back to the second camp soon after mid - day ; and, 

 as there was no prospect of improvement in the weather, packed 

 up and returned to Quito. It was now close upon Easter, and 

 we could not leave again until Grood Friday was over. Giacometti, 

 on that day, at considerable trouble to himself, thoughtfully 

 provided his guests with salt fish for dinner ; and though this 

 nauseous diet was eaten with meekness and resignation by all 

 good Catholics, one of the boarders — a Yankee Jew — protested, 

 in language which would have been rough in the Western States, 

 against the subtraction of his customary pound of flesh as a fraud 

 on his stomach, and against the substitute as an insult to his 

 religion. The next day we left Quito by the road to the North, 

 on our way to Cayambe, and did not return again to the Capital 

 before the third of May. 



ON THE ROAD. 



