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naderstood that Mr. Jarvis would share in the purchase. Mr. Jarvis 

 took at first 1,000 and again 400, Col. Downie sending the remainder to 

 Scotland, his native country, with the exception of 1,000 sold to Goeld 

 Bros. & Co. and shipped to the United States. 



The sale to Col. Downie was consummated June 24, 1810, and the 

 sheep immediately driven to Lisbon, where they arrived early in July. 

 Jarvis sent a clerk in his employ and two men to assist in conducting 

 the sheep out of Spain, giving direction to drive them only nights and 

 mornings and to divide them into two flocks, and, should danger from 

 the armies menace, to move rapidly and get them out of Spain in small 

 parcels, say 250 on one road and 250 on another the same day, and the 

 same number the next day by different roads. They arrived safely, and 

 papers were given certifying to the sale and the pedigree, and copies of 

 these accompanied each and every shipment. Copies of those relating 

 to the Paular flock are here given, or the substance of them: 



Firmin Coronado, secretary to the Junta, certified June 25, 18 '0, that 

 by the decree of that body of the 24th the Junta had sold to Col. 

 Downie, commissary of the British army, 2,815 ewes, 1,130 males (3,945 

 in all), 18 dogs, 5 shepherd ponies, and 5 mess kettles, all pertaining to 

 the cabana, confiscated from Don Manuel Godoy, called Paular flock, 

 and which were to have a free passage to Lisbon or any other conven- 

 ient port. On the same day the Marquis of EomaSa, captain-general 

 of the Spanish armies, granted a passport for this flock from Badajos 

 to Lisbon, enjoining all military and civil authorities to put no hindrance 

 in the way, but to give all necessary assistance. 



Two days later, June 27, 1810, at the castle of Piedra, the mayoral or 

 shepherd of this cabana, added his certificate: 



I, Don Jos(S Alvarez y Suares, mayoral of the fiue Transhumante Leonesa cabafia, 

 called the Paular, certify that for ten years previous to the sale of this flock I was 

 its assistant mayoral, during which time it helonged to the Carthusian order del 

 Paular; that in the year 1796 it was sold by the said Carthusian order to Don Manuel 

 de Godoy, Prince of Peace, in which year I entered upon the sole charge of it, and 

 so remained for fourteen years, making in all twenty-four years, previous to the con- 

 fiscation by the Government of the property of the said Godoy, that I have had 

 charge of it; and during all this time there has been no mixture of any other cabaiSa 

 with this; and that at this date there has been sold by the governiug Junta of the 

 province of Estremadura to John Downie, colonel of the royal armies of Spain and 

 commissary of the British army, 2,815 ewes and 1,132 males (in all 3,947), all of the 

 best quality and condition, from the said flock, this cabana being the choicest and 

 best of the Kingdom, and its wool being held in the highest estimation in foreign 

 countries. 



The mayoral also certified July 10, 1810, that he had accompanied 

 this flock to Lisbon, and that in his presence Col. Downie delivered to 

 Consul Jarvis 750 ewes and 250 males of the Paular cabana, and Col. 

 Downie made a similar certificate in which he also stated that he had 

 sold them on that day— July 10, 1810— to Mr. Jarvis. 



Consul Jarvis, between this date and the last of the month, increased 

 his purchase by 400 Paulars and 600 Aquierres, and on August Ij 1810, 



