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the morning. His dislike of pomp and show was 

 evinced in a similar manner when he returned to 

 Buenos Ayres, after having conquered Chili from 

 the Spaniards, in 1817- He there managed mat- 

 ters with more success than at Lima ; for, al- 

 though the inhabitants were prepared to give him 

 a public reception, he contrived to enter that ca- 

 pital without being discovered. 



13th. — Next morning I rode with two gentle- 

 men to San Martin's head-quarters, a little beyond 

 the city walls, on the Callao road. He had come to 

 this place, on the evening before, from the Mar- 

 quis of Montemire'^s, instead of going to the palace, 

 where he dreaded a repetition of the same bustle. 

 He was completely surrounded by business, but 

 attended to it all himself : It was curious to ob- 

 serve every one coming out of his presence pleas- 

 ed with the reception he had met with, whether 

 he had succeeded or not. 



We no sooner entered than he recognized one 

 of my companions, who was an excellent draughts- 

 man, and whom he had seen on board the schooner 

 a fortnight before. He had heard how much the 

 jealousy of the Spaniards had interfered with my 



