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of paying all that was due to hiin before start- 

 ing, and which is a very bad plan. I would 

 strongly advise travellers never to pay them more 

 than one half, agreeing to pay the other half on 

 arriving at their journey's end; which is the 

 usual method of paying them, and was accord- 

 ing to my agreement, but he plag ued me so much, 

 and I, never suspecting his intention was to 

 leave me, paid him the whole. However, I got 

 on very well with the boy, and it has served as 

 a lesson for me, how to treat with them in 

 future. The next morning, the we were 



up by daylight ; the peons were in search of the 

 stray mules, and I took my mate, while flocks 

 of parrots were screaming high over my head : as 

 the sun rose, and reflected its rays on the enor- 

 mous mountains around us, some of whose 

 summits were here and there tipt with snow, 

 our situation reminded me of the view which a 

 certain traveller gives of Villavicencia ; but he 

 acknowledges that his views were taken from 

 memory. Certainly, in this instance, his me- 



