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their security. Many of these harmless people 

 were at our door before daylight, to offer 

 their protection and assistance. 



We left them early, intending to reach 

 Lerma that night, but in ascending a very 

 steep part of the road my saddle slipped from 

 under me, by which means I received a severe 

 fall, and it was with difficulty I could reach 

 Tolluca ; where having been bled, and rested 

 till the next day, we proceeded to Lerma, 

 and the following evening entered Mexico, 

 much pleased with the magnificent country 

 through which we had passed, and with the 

 simple manners of the people who inhabit it. 



On my arrival I immediately prepared for 

 making casts of the Aztec idols and sculptures 

 which had been discovered about twenty-four 

 years since, and fortunately had been suf- 

 fered to remain entire. The colossal figure 

 of Teoyamiqui, the Goddess of War, was 

 buried under the gallery of the University, 



