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10th. — Lord Cochrane returned to us in the Montezuma ;— every 
thing is finally settled as to our departure. The brig Colonel Allen 
is to come to Quintero, where we are all to embark ; and in less 
than a week we expect to be under weigh. All hands are now 
employed ; the overseer’s people on the hill salting beef, the car- 
penters nailing up boxes, people cutting strips of hide for cordage, 
secretaries writing, the press at work, sailors fitting spars across the 
light logs, called balsas, to make a raft to ship the goods with *; and 
amidst all this, people coming and going, foreigners and English, 
to take leave of the Admiral; and some, I am sorry to say, for the 
purpose of being, and showing themselves, ungrateful. Men for whom 
he had done every thing, both in the Chilian service and long before 
they joined it, — nay, who owed their very bringing up at all to him, 
reproach him for their own disappointed vanity or desire of gain; as 
if he had the dispensing of honorary titles or distinctions, or the 
disposal of the public funds. He did for them on his return from 
Acapulco what he did for himself, — he obtained a solemn promise 
from the ministers both of pay and of reward. + If any of the officers 
have now made a private bargain for their own personal advantage, 
they best know on what terms they have made it. However, some 
in this country, and those among the best, have, I really think, a 
sincere regard for the Admiral ; but I believe in friendship as in love, 
“ ce nest pas tout a étre aimé ; il faut étre apprécié :” and I scarcely know 
one here who is capable of appreciating him justly; so that even the very 
homage he receives is unworthy of him. Oh, why is he not at home ! 
17th.— At length every thing is embarked, and we are ready to 
sail. This morning I walked with Lord Cochrane to the tops of 
most of the hills immediately between the house of the Herradura 
and the sea: perhaps it may be the last time he will ever tread these 
grounds, for which he was doing so much; and I shall, in all proba- 
* Balsas are literally rafts: but the name is extended to those large trunks of trees as 
light as cork, which are now commonly used instead of the inflated seal skins, which the 
native Chilenos had adapted to the same purpose. = _ 
+ See the letters of the 4th June, and the 19th June, 1822, in the Introduction, p. 110. 
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