BOGOTA'. 



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CHAPTER XIV. 



Bogota' — patriotic tertulias — sur- 

 render OF PUERTO CAVELLO PIC-NIC 



PARTY TO MONTSERRAT REVENUE 



ARMY NAVY CHRISTMAS FEASTS — FI- 

 NAL DEPARTURE FROM THE CAPITAL. 



I FOUND my friends now lodged in an ex- 

 cellent house in the Plaza de San Francisco. 

 I learnt that during my absence the society 

 had been improved by the introduction of 

 two evening parties, called patriotic tertulias : 

 the one given by the Vice-President, to 

 which only men were invited, he being a 

 bachelor ; the other by the Minister of Fi- 

 nance, who, being a married man, had in- 



