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SAN BLAS, 



CHAPTER XIV. 

 SAN BLAS. 



REkSIDENCE at SAN BLAS, AND RETURN ROUND CAPE 

 HORN TO RIO DE JANEIRO. 



On the 5th of May, I left Tepic for San Bias, 

 in order to be present when the treasure for Eng- 

 land should be put on board the Conway. 



The officers as well as myself took leave of the 

 interior without much regret ; for notwithstand- 

 ing the many kind attentions which we had met 

 with, it was impossible to disguise from ourselves, 

 that we were all more or less objects of suspicion 

 to the inhabitants, roused by circumstances into 

 a high degree of political excitement. In such 

 times, party-spirit is a feeling which must belong 

 to every individual forming the society ; an im- 

 partial stranger, therefore, who does not, and in- 

 deed cannot enter fully into the enthusiasm of 



