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heard throughout the crowded churchy which 

 but a minute before was all uproar and confu- 

 sion. Alas ! as I came away^ I could not but 

 think what a mixture of frenzy, bigotry^ and 

 mockery of religion was all this. 



The average temperature of the thermometer 

 during the month of September was 67% in Oc- 

 tober 75% November, till the 10th, 80^ 



On the XOth of November y I embarked on 

 board the Volador, a little schooner under eighty 

 tons burthen, for Valparaiso, intending to cross 

 the Cordillera again, on my return towards 

 England. We sailed the same day. This little 

 vessel was swarming with cockroaches to that 

 degree, that at night the beams were literally 

 covered with them, and they (the beams) not 

 being ten inches above my head when laying in 

 bed, I usually found, on waking in the morning, 

 a dozen or so of these creatures crushed to death 

 between my sheets. 



We held SE. winds till the 24th, before we 

 got into the variables, which drove us into the 



