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die, carried him into the courtyard of a house, and 

 locked the door. The reader will perhaps cry shame 

 upon us, but we went out once and were urged to re- 

 tire, and two men were standing at the window all 

 the time. It was natural to wish to break the head of 

 the young man, but it was natural also to avoid bring- 

 ing upon ourselves a gang which, though broken, was 

 strong enough to laugh at the authorities of the town, 

 and to waylay us in the wild road we had to pass. 

 There was one ominous circumstance in the affair : that 

 in a town in the State of San Salvador, a man dared 

 threaten publicly to kill another because he was a par- 

 tisan of Morazan, showed a disaffection in that state 

 which surprised me more than anything I had yet en- 

 countered. Our men were afraid to take the mules to 

 water, and it was indispensable for them to drink. 

 We were cautioned against going with them ; and at 

 length, upon our standing in the doorway ready to 

 go to their assistance, they set off with loaded pistols. 

 When I passed through Izalco before it was a tranquil 

 place. 



Early in the morning we started, arrived at Zonzonate 

 before breakfast, and rode to the house of my friend 

 Mr. De Nouvelle. It was exactly two months since 

 I left it, and, with the exception of my voyage on the 

 Pacific and sickness at Costa Rica, I had not had a 

 day of repose. 



I was now within four days of Guatimala, but the 

 difficulty of going on was greater than ever. The cap- 

 tain could procure no mules. No intelligence had been 

 received of Morazan's movements ; intercourse was en- 

 tirely broken off, business at a stand, and the people 

 anxiously waiting for news from Guatimala. Nobody 

 would set out on that road. I was very much distress- 



