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themselves to encounter any attack. The guides, knowing well the 

 dangers that were to be apprehended, showed much solicitude about 

 keeping the company together. 



They reached Yanga without accident, and rinding the posada 

 occupied by a party of soldiers, and a recruiting officer, they were 

 directed to a house with a porch, but they found it shut up. They 

 therefore, being assured that the owner would soon return, deposited 

 the saddles, &c., in the porch. Soon after, a woman appeared, and on 

 being informed of their situation, and that they had fasted for two 

 days, she set about providing for their supper, apparently from 

 Christian motives, for during the process she crossed herself several 

 times. She proved to be the owner of the estate, was somewhat 

 advanced in life, managed her own affairs, and was seemingly well 

 adapted to encounter the roughness of the times. The heiress, a little 

 girl, (Angelita by name,) came galloping on a horse, driving the cattle 

 before her, with the air of a veteran, having command over both the 

 animal she rode, and those she drove ; they were not much struck with 

 her beauty, for her well-plastered face, and wide-spreading and matted 

 hair, gave her the appearance of an elf; but she was a specimen of 

 Peruvian nobility. Their supper was good, and they w 7 ere permitted 

 to lie on the clay floor, in the house. 



They paid the usual price for the accommodations. In the morning, 

 before their departure, they purchased fifty oranges for twelve and a 

 half cents (a real), it being stipulated, however, that they should be 

 gathered by themselves. These served to refresh them while passing 

 over the barren track (described in their ascent) of four leagues. They 

 were overtaken by their Chilian friends, and the troop, when their 

 minds were relieved of the apprehensions of robberies. 



Caballeros was reached at an early hour, and here they intended to 

 stop on account of their horses ; but their Chilian friends persuaded 

 them to pursue their journey to Lima, promising to render them assis- 

 tance, in case they should need it. At Caballeros they witnessed a 

 fight between a turkey and a game-cock ; strife, indeed, appears to be 

 a constant amusement with the Peruvians, and scenes of this kind 

 alone seem to interest the public. After a long day's journey of twelve 

 leagues, they reached Lima at eight o'clock, very much fatigued, and 

 happy to return to the comforts of civilized life. 



The only novelty they met with during the day's ride was a Guacho 

 on horseback, carrying a pine board before him, — a proof of the scarcity 

 of such articles in Peru, and the value that is set upon them. 



This journey, although attended with much fatigue and some dis- 

 appointment, from not having accomplished their object entirely, that of 



