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liquor pulque. After a drive of about two 

 hours, we joined the great road, and, passing 

 a few tracts of cultivated land, arrived in the 

 evening at the town of St. Martin's, where we 

 found a tolerable clean floor to sleep on, and 

 a better supper than had generally fallen to 

 our lot when unprovided ourselves with the 

 materials. Before retiring to rest, our drivers 

 came in, and respectfully informed us, that, 

 though we had a very long journey to perform 

 the next day, yet, it being Easter Sunday, 

 they could not possibly proceed till they had 

 heard mass ; and our landlady also gave us 

 to understand that no breakfast could be 

 prepared till her family had been to prayers. 

 We were therefore called up before daylight, 

 and left the house soon after five ; at which 

 early hour the gates of the elegant church 

 were thronged with people, principally In- 

 dians. Having breakfasted, the director of 

 our mules, smiling as he mounted, said, " we 



