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not ready to turn out; repeating to them the proverb, that "it is a bad 

 *' fheep which cannot carry its own wooL" On our expedition to Higu- 

 eras I perceived that he had acquired a habit which I had never before 

 obferved in him, and it was this; after eating, if he did not get his 

 fiefta or fleep, his ftomach was affed:ed, and he fell fick. For this 

 reafon, when on the journey, let the rain be ever fo heavy, or the fun 

 ever fo hot, he always repofed for a (hort time after his repaft, a carpet 

 or cloak being fpread under a tree, on which he lay down, and having 

 flept a fhort time he mounted his horfc and proceeded on his journey. 

 When we were engaged in the wars during the conqueft of New Spain, 

 he was very thin and {lender, but. after his return from Higueras he 

 grew fat, and acquired a belly. He at 'this time trimmed his beard 

 which had not begun to grow white, in the fhort fafhion. In his early 

 life he was very liberal, but grew clofe, latterly j fome of his fervants 

 complaining that he did not pay them as he ought, and 1 have alfo to 

 obferve that in his latter undertakings he never fucceeded. Perhaps fuch 

 was the will of heaven, his reward being referved for another place; 

 for he was a good cavalier, and very devout to the Holy Virgin, and 

 alfo to St. Paul and other Holy Saints. God pardon him his fins; and 

 me mine; and give me a good end which is better than all conquefts 

 and vidlories over Indians. 



