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FRANCISCO LOZANO. 9] 
superintend the missions of the Chaymas, by their 
syndic at Cumana, and the superior, a corpulent 
and jolly old capuchin, received them with kind- 
ness. ‘This respectable personage, seated the greater 
part of the day in an arm-chair, complained bitter- 
ly of the indolence of his countrymen. He consi- 
dered the pursuits of the travellers as useless, smiled 
at the sight of their instruments and dried plants, 
and maintained that of all the enjoyments of life, 
without excepting sleep, none could be compared 
with the pleasure of eating good beef. 
This mission was founded about the end of the 
seventeenth century, near the junction of the Man- 
zanares and Lucasperez ; but, in consequence of a 
fire, was removed to its present situation. The num- 
ber of families now amounted to a hundred, and, as 
the head of the establishment observed, the custom 
of marrying at a very early age contributes greatly 
to the rapid increase of population. 
In the village of Arenas, which is inhabited by 
Indians of the same race as those of San Fernando, 
there lived a labourer, Francisco Lozano, who had 
suckled a child. Its mother happening to be sick, 
he took it, and in order to quiet it, pressed it to his 
breast, when the stimulus imparted by the sucking 
of the child caused a flow of milk. The travel- 
lers saw the certificate drawn up on the spot to at- 
test this remarkable fact, of which several eyewit- 
nesses were still living. The man was not at Are- 
nas during their stay at the mission, but afterwards 
visited them at Cumana, accompanied by his son, 
when M. Bonpland examined his breasts, and found 
them wrinkled, like those of women who have nursed. 
He was not an Indian, but a white descended from 
