SIX MONTHS IN MEXICO. 



CHAPTER I. 



Voyage. — Jamaica. — Campeachy. — Orizaba. — St. Juan de 

 Ullua. — Isla de Sacrificios. 



On the 11th of December, 1822, I sailed 

 from Portsmouth in the Rawlings, a fine 

 merchant vessel, of three hundred and fifty 

 tons burthen, twelve guns, and a crew of 

 twenty men, commanded by Captain James 

 Quelch. It was chartered to carry out a cargo 

 of the manufactured articles of Germany, 

 on account of the Rhenish Company of Mer- 

 chants, then about to establish themselves 



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