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THE PRIEST AND THE GOVERNOR. 



commissioned me to bring him out (should I ever return) a small piano 

 and a French horn, which he would pay for in salt fish and sarsaparilla. 

 I cannot refrain from expressing my grateful thanks, for much attention 

 and much information, to my friends — the well-informed and gentleman- 

 like Arebalo, and the pious, simple-minded, single-hearted little Indian 

 priest of Pebas. We arrived at Cochiquinas (twenty-five miles distant) 

 at half-past 8 p. m. 



