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JOUKNEY TO THE GOLD MINES AND 

 LAVADEROS OF LA CAROLINA. 



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Started at day-break from San Luis, to go to 

 the Gold Mines and Lavaderos* of La Carolina, 

 which are in the mountains oil the north of the 

 town. 



Drove a set of loose horses before us, and^ about 

 twelve oVlock, stopped to change. 



The horses were driven to the edge of a preci- 

 pice which was quite perpendicular, and which 

 overhung a torrent, and we formed a semicircle 

 about them while the peons began to catch them 

 with the lasso, which they were much afraid of. 

 The horses were so crowded and scared, that I 

 expected they would all have been over the preci- 

 pice : at last the hind-legs of one horse went down 

 the chff, and he hung in a most extraordinary man- 



* Alluvial soil which is washed for gold. 



