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tired of remaining at the port, and a campaign with 

 Morazan was the only thing that offered. He liked 

 General Morazan, and he liked the country, and thought 

 his wife would ; if Morazan succeeded there would be 

 vacant offices and estates without owners, and some of 

 them worth having. He went from whaling to cam- 

 paigning as coolly as a Yankee would from cutting 

 down trees to editing a newspaper. It was no affair of 

 mine, but I suggested that there was no honour to be 

 gained ; that he would get his full share of hard knocks, 

 bullets, and sword-cuts ; that if Morazan succeeded he 

 would have a desperate struggle for his share of the 

 spoils, and if Morazan failed he would certainly be shot. 

 All this was matter he had thought on, and before com- 

 mitting himself he intended to make his observations at 

 San Salvador. 



At ten o'clock we reached the village of San Alejo, 

 and stopped at a very comfortable house, where all 

 were in a state of excitement from the report of an in- 

 vasion from Honduras. 



Early the next morning we started with a new guide, 

 and a little beyond the village he pointed out a place 

 where his uncle was murdered and robbed about a year 

 before. Four of the robbers were caught, and sent by 

 the alcalde, under a guard of the relations of the mur- 

 dered man, to San Miguel, with directions to the guard 

 to shoot them if refractory. The guard found them re- 

 fractory at the very place where the murder had been 

 committed, and shot them on the spot. At eight o'clock 

 we came in sight of the Volcano of San Miguel, and at 

 two entered the city. Riding up the street, we passed 

 a large church with its front fallen, and saw paintings 

 on the walls, and an altar forty feet high, with columns, 

 and images sculptured and gilded, exposed to the , op en 



