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PASSAGE ACROSS 



between Villa Nueva and Santiago. It is a pul- 

 peria (shop), and was filled wdth peons drinking; 

 however, they had got bread and wine, and I sent 

 a man off to get a sheep ; there was also a nice 

 stream of water for bathing. In the course of 

 three or four hours, several of the party arrived 

 on horses, and they were in high spirits at the 

 triumph they had gained over the capataz. They 

 said that the governor had heard their cause, and 

 had then ordered them to give the capataz a 

 hundred lashes, but that as they did not exactly 

 know how or where they were to inflict this pu- 

 nishment, they begged him to have the goodness 

 to change it ; upon which the governor said, that 

 if I preferred it, I might pay him only six dollars 

 for each of his mules, instead of eight, which was 

 the sum agreed for. The latter award was cer- 

 tainly the best of the two ; and, accordingly, when 

 the capataz arrived, I assured him that if he had 

 behaved well I should have given him, in addition 

 to his agreement, the usual " gratificacion but, 

 for his cruelty to his mules, I should most cer- 

 tainly inflict upon him one of the punishments to 

 which the governor had sentenced him; and I left 



