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at least, might be satisfactorily and profitably employed 

 in examining the many curious objects in the country 

 around. For botanical researches it is the richest re- 

 gion in Central America. But we had no time even 

 for rest. 



I passed the evening in writing, packing things to be 

 sent to Guatimala, among others my quezal, which, 

 however, never arrived, and in writing letters, one of 

 which was on account of the cura, and in which, in- 

 tending, even if it fell into wrong hands, to be out of 

 the country myself, I spoke in no measured terms of the 

 atrocity committed by Carrera. 



