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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



of the soldiers was a young man, who was taken pris- 

 oner and brought before General Morazan. The latter 

 knew him personally, and inquired for several of his old 

 partisans by name, asking whether they were not com- 

 ing to join him. The young man answered that they 

 were not, and Morazan and his officers seemed disap- 

 pointed. No doubt he had expected a rising of citizens 

 in his favour, and again to be hailed as a deliverer from 

 Carrera. In San Salvador I had heard that he had re- 

 ceived urgent solicitations to come up ; but, whatever 

 had been contemplated, there was no manifestation of 

 any such intention ; on the contrary, the hoarse cry was 

 ringing in his ears, " Muera el tyranno ! Muera el Gen^ 

 eral Morazan !" Popular feeling had undergone an en- 

 tire revolution, or else it was kept down by the masses 

 of Indians who came in from the villages around to de- 

 fend the city against him. 



In the mean time the fire slackened, and at twelve 

 o'clock it died away entirely ; but the plaza was strewed 

 with dead, dense masses choked up the streets, and at 

 the corners of the plaza the soldiers, with gross ribaldry 

 and jests, insulted and jeered at Morazan and his men. 

 The firing ceased only from want of ammunition, Car- 

 rera's stock having been left in Morazan's possession. 

 Carrera, in his eagerness to renew the attack, sat down 

 to make cartridges with his own hands. 



The house of Mr. Hall, the British vice-consul, was 

 on one of the sides of the plaza. Mr. Chatfield, the 

 consul general, was at Escuintla, about twelve leagues 

 distant, when intelligence was received of Morazan's 

 invasion. He mounted his horse, rode up to the city, 

 and hoisted the English flag on Mr. Hall's house, to 

 Morazan's soldiers the most conspicuous object on the 

 plaza. Carrera himself was hardly more obnoxious to 



