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with him, one in which he had been some time 

 living at Concep9ion after the earthquake. In 

 the course of the day the party from Molquilla 

 arrived ; and we were once more united in our 

 full force, and confiding in a hope that from this 

 spot we should, ere long, be relieved. Two of the 

 seamen who had lost their way in the fog on the 

 hills, during their march from Molquilla, also had 

 come into the camp. We had felt a little uneasy 

 about them, and two Chilino guides on horse- 

 back had been despatched in search of them. 

 They had passed the night in the woods. A 

 pet English sheep, which had been saved and 

 carefully protected by many friends amongst 

 the crew, had also moved with them. He 

 marched with them half the distance, with a pair 

 of saddle-bags, which his friends had made for 

 him, across his back, containing a supply, as 

 Jack termed it, of provisions for his journey: on 

 becoming tired, he was carried on a horse to his 

 journey's end. The evident intelligence dis- 

 played by this animal, on first landing from the 

 raft, was very striking ; he no sooner got on the 

 beach than, turning to the wreck, he bleated in 

 a most unusual and extraordinary manner. He 

 had no fear of the Indian dogs, and would attack 



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