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panions to adhere strictly to what they had commenced. However, by his 
intercession on our behalf, he obtained from the other three permission to 
write, in their names, an official letter to the governor of Mendoza; in which 
he requested that the lives of the officers whom they had taken would be 
held sacred, and that they should be allowed to retire to any of the provinces 
as destierrados, without suffering other punishment or imprisonment. This 
letter was answered by Godoy Cruz, the governor, in the affirmative. 
We continued to march towards Mendoza; and when we were about two 
leagues from the town, several squadrons came out to receive us. Moya 
and Arias, who had assumed the command, ordered the soldiers to surrender 
their arms; which they did with reluctance. 
We halted at a large country-house, which served as a barrack for the 
enemy’s troops: there the soldiers were placed in a yard, with double guards 
over them ; and Colonel Garcia, commandant of the barracks, sent to invite 
us to sup with him, in order to separate us from our soldiers; whom they still 
feared, though unarmed. After the Colonel had entertained us about two 
hours in his quarters, an adjutant came with a strong guard and conducted 
us to the barrack of San Domingo in Mendoza; where we were thrown into 
a large dark room, without any kind of defence against the cold, and obliged 
to lie on a damp brick floor. After a few days’ residence there, we became 
inmates of the capilla (a room dedicated to persons under sentence of death, 
and stocked with images, &c. for religious purposes), in the gaol ; when we 
were loaded with irons, &c. &c. 
The officers who had conducted the revolution were received with much 
magnificence at the Governor’s, and next morning were billeted in the most 
respectable houses of the friends of Godoy Cruz. A small pension was 
allowed them for private expenses. 
In the meantime Carrera was lodged in the dungeon with Colonel Bene- 
vente (who was taken the morning after the revolution), and bound with 
irons and cords in the most brutal manner: he knew that he should in a few 
days suffer the same fate as his brothers, but bore his misfortune with the 
same serenity of mind for which he was always distinguished. He seemed to 
have no concern for himself; but spoke of the misfortunes of his wife, and 
the friends who were partakers of his hardships, with the greatest regret. 
Albin Gutierres, who commanded the force of Mendoza, desisted from his 
cruelties whilst he supposed that Carrera had escaped ; but when he received 
the letters of the conspirators relative to the revolution they had made, he 
