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subprefect should act according to it, in the introduction of for- 

 eigners in your district, and also a copy of the order of the 17th 

 of June, 1835, and his excellency orders me to tell you to inform 

 him immediately with regard to the issue of the fulfilment of his 

 said decree. 



" It is a copy. God and liberty. 



" Domingo Gonzalez. 



" San Cristobal, December 1, 1840." 



" His excellency the governor, having read your information 

 of the 15th inst., orders me to tell you to keep a watchful eye 

 upon the strangers who visit the ruins ; and when any of them 

 arrive, to give notice of it to this government without delay, ex- 

 pressing their numbers, whence they come, and what is their ob- 

 ject, without allowing them to make any operation or excava- 

 tion, and much less to remove anything whatever, however in- 

 significant it may appear. 



" Consequently, if they arrive with the only object of visiting, 

 let them do it in company with one, two, or more officers of that 

 subprefecture, that the above dispositions may be fulfilled. 

 " It is a copy from the original. 



" God and liberty. 



" Domingo Gonzalez. 



" San Cristobal, November 30, 1840." 



Under these orders Mr. Pawling has been compelled to leave 

 the ruins, and the casts belonging to the author, for the making of 

 which he had subjected himself to considerable expense, have 

 been seized and detained by the prefect. Perhaps, instead of 

 unavailing regrets, he ought rather to congratulate himself that 

 he had left the ruins, and that Mr. Catherwood's drawings were 

 safe, before the news of their visit reached the capital. He can 

 imagine the excitement in the village, and the annoyance and 

 vexation to which future travellers will be subjected ; but he can- 

 not understand exactly the cause. His purpose of leaving Paw- 

 ling to make casts was known in the village, and no objections 

 whatever were made. Don Santiago Froncoso, the first of the 

 " true patriots" whose names are signed to the complaint, was 



