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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



be carried to the custom-house for inspection, and 

 a hst furnished beforehand of every article. The 

 last was utterly impossible, as we had on board the 

 whole miscellaneous collection made on our jour- 

 ney, with no such thing as a memorandum of the 

 items. But by the active kindness of our late con- 

 sul, Mr. Calhoun, and the courtesy of his excellen- 

 cy the governor, a special order was procured for 

 transferring the whole without inspection from one 

 vessel to the other. The next day was occupied in 

 the details of this business, and in the afternoon we 

 joined in a paseo, the style and show of which, 

 for the moment, made us think shghtingly of the 

 simple exhibition at Merida ; and after dark, by the 

 light of a single candle, with heads uncovered, we 

 stood before the marble slab enclosing the bones of 

 Columbus. 



On the fourth we embarked on board the Ann Lou- 

 isa. She was full of passengers, principally Span- 

 iards escaping from the convulsions of Mexico, but 

 Captain Clifford contrived to give us accommoda- 

 tions much better tha^ we were used to, and we 

 found on board the comforts and conveniences of 

 Atlantic packets. On the seventeenth we reached 

 New- York. The reader and I must again part, and 

 trusting that he will find nothing in these pages to 

 disturb the friendship that has hitherto existed be- 

 tween us, I again return him my thanks for his kind- 

 ness, and bid him farewell 



