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and if I did not like it, I would accept of 

 the offer he was fo good to make ine. The 

 thing that gave him this liigh opinion 

 of me was, that as he had been fo civil 

 to us, I was very officious in aflifting to 

 drive in thofe mules that ftraved from 

 the reft upon thofe large plains we pafled 

 over; and this I thought was tlic leaft I 

 could do towards making feme returns ror 

 the obligations we were under to him. 



When .we got into St. Jago, the car- 

 rier delivered us to the caprain of the 

 guard, at the palace gate; and he foori 

 after introduced us to the piefident, Don 

 Jofeph Manfo, who received us very ci- 

 villy, and then fent us to the houfe Vv^here 

 captain Cheap and Mr. Hamih^on were. 

 We found them extremely well lodg- 

 ed at the houfe of a Scotch phyfi- 

 cian, whofe name v/as don Patri- 

 cio Gedd. This gentleman had been 

 a long time in this ciiy, and was 

 greatly efteemed by the Spaniards, as 



P 4 well 



