ARRIVAL AT VALPARAISO. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

 CHILI. 



EXCURSION TO THE INTERIOR STATE OF POLITICAL 



FEELING IN CHILI. 



Valparaiso^ 19th of March 1821. We an- 

 chored here yesterday evening, after eighteen days 

 passage from Lima, which is considered rafther 

 quick, the average for ships of war being some- 

 what more than three weeks. I landed in the 

 evening to deliver letters and messages, being 

 principally in answer to those we had carried on 

 last sailing from Valparaiso, and already alluded 

 to in the account of our proceedings at Callao. 

 Many of the people at Valparaiso would scarcely 

 believe that we had been in Peru at all, not being 

 acquainted with the expeditious manner in which 



