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The luncheon at Don Henriquez’s was all the produce of the farm. 
Sausages as good as those of Bologna; bread of his own wheat, as 
white as that made of the Sicilian grain; butter that the dairies of 
England might have been proud of; and of the wines I have spoken 
already. I was delighted with the visit in every way ; the hospitality 
of the house, and the improvements going on, which must all tend to 
the good of the country. 
Soon after we reached home, I received a magnificent present of 
fruit and flowers from Dojia Rosa O’ Higgins. The fruit was water- 
melons, Iucumas, oranges, and sweet limes, no others being as yet in 
season ; and the flowers, of all the finest and rarest. They were ar- 
ranged on trays, covered with embroidered napkins, and borne on 
the heads of servants in the full dress of the palace livery ; one out 
of livery entering first to pay me a compliment from the lady. At 
night the young ladies Cotapos, and their brother, Don Jose Antonio, 
danced for me the cuando, a national dance. It is performed by two 
persons, and begins slowly like a minuet ; it then quickens according 
to the music and the song, which represent a sort of loving quarrel 
and final agreement ; the skill of the dancer consisting in holding his 
body steady, beating the ground with inconceivable quickness with 
his feet in a measure called zapatear (to shoe). Dofia Mariquita played 
and sung the song which she herself has adapted to the music, the 
ordinary verses being love verses, which she does not choose to sing, 
being proper for the gentleman to sing to his partner. But there are 
several songs to the cuando; and in the country where Sancho 
Panca’s language is spoken, it is to be supposed that some are 
burlesque. * 
* First Cuando. 
*¢ Anda ingrata que algun dia 
Con las mudanzas del tiempo, 
Lloraras como yo Iloro, 
Sentiras como yo siento. 
Cuando, cuando, 
Cuando, mi vida cuando. 
