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for the richness of its vegetable and mi- 

 neral kingdom. To enable me to effect this, 

 I applied to my friend Filipe Losano, for 

 assistance to procure the necessary peonsy 

 mules, &c., and being market-day, I accom- 

 panied the wife of my friend thither, to 

 purchase the provisions required for my 

 journey, consisting of dried beef, a prepa- 

 ration of pork called tocino, corned fowls, 

 pork-sausages, eggs, chocolate, butter, rice, 

 and hard biscuits ; some aguadiente, potatoes, 

 and onions, completed the whole. 



The market did not seem very good, but 

 the lady informed me that the necessaries 

 of life are generally supplied in abundance, 

 and at a reasonable rate. I then walked 

 about the town with the Alcalde Losano. 

 It has one principal square, two others not 

 yet finished, and a tolerably good-looking 

 church. The population between two and 

 three thousand. A noise of billiards attract- 



