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same Carrera, placed side wise on a mule, with his feet 

 tied under him, his face so bruised, swollen, and disfig- 

 ured by stones and blows of machetes that he could 

 not be recognised, and the prisoners tied together with 

 ropes ; and the chief of the state, secretary of state, and 

 secretary of the Constituent Assembly rode by Carrera's 

 side in this disgraceful triumph. 



General Guzman was one of those who had been lib- 

 erated from prison by General Morazan. He had es- 

 caped from the plaza with the remnant of his forces, 

 but, unable to endure the fatigues of the journey, he 

 was left behind, secreted on the road ; and General 

 Morazan told me that, in consequence of the cruelty ex- 

 ercised upon him, and the horrible state of anxiety in 

 which he was kept, reason had deserted its throne, and 

 his once strong mind was gone. 



From this time the city settled into a volcanic calm, 

 quivering with apprehensions of an attack by General 

 Morazan, a rising of the Indians and a war of castes, 

 and startled by occasional rumours that Carrera intend- 

 ed to bring Guzman and the prisoners out into the plaza 

 and shoot them. On the fourteenth of March intelli- 

 gence was received from Figoroa that General Mora- 

 zan had crossed the Rio Paz and was marching against 

 Guatimala. This swallowed up all other apprehensions. 

 Carrera was the only man who could protect the city. 

 On the fifteenth he marched out with nine hundred men 

 toward Arazola, leaving the plaza occupied by five 

 hundred men. Great gloom hung over the city. The 

 same day Morazan arrived at the Coral de Piedra, 

 eleven leagues from Guatimala. On the sixteenth the 

 soldiers commenced erecting parapets at the corners of 

 the plaza ; many Indians came in from the villages to 

 assist, and Carrera took up his position at the Aceytuna, 



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