QUINTERO. 341 
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, who 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 ; 
which we hope to get ready to-morrow : — 
