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juncture, seemed to me to be marked with much 

 sagacity, prudence, and foresight. The political 

 maxims, by which he professed to be guided, will 

 be given in detail, as well as his subsequent con- 

 duct ; and although it be true, that they were 

 not eventually found, in every minute detail, con- 

 sistent with each other, his original plans and pro- 

 fessions were not, on that account alone, the less 

 judicious or appropriate to the particular times. 

 It is my present purpose to describe merely what 

 I actually saw, accompanied by such reflections 

 only as seem calculated to give clearness to that 

 description, without the most distant view to the 

 advancement of any party-question, or political 

 controversy. Even had my opportunities enabled 

 me to collect adequate information respecting all 

 that was passing at the moment, I must still 

 have left the inquiry incomplete, on quitting the 

 spot. 



25th of June,~l had an interview this day 

 with General San Martin, on board a little 

 schooner, a yacht of his own, anchored in Callao 

 Roads for the convenience of communicating with 



