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P. M., arrived at La Cabezara, a retired spot, 

 situated at the junction of two streams, at the 

 foot of the mountain we had to cross, to reach 

 the province of Chocd. Here we were obliged 

 to halt and pitch our tents for the night, as 

 one of the peons had not yet joined us, al- 

 though only two leagues distant from An- 

 cerma. 



Ancerma, the village I had just left, is 

 small, and thinly populated. It has suffered 

 much from the revolution, as the inhabitants 

 were royalists. 



Jan. 24th. Hose at daylight, and being 

 joined by the peon we had waited for, I seated 

 myself in the chair on the back of my sillero, 

 and commenced our journey. The road was 

 excessively bad and unequal, the rain falling 

 in torrents. Arrived about three at a clear 

 spot, called El Torrecito, where I had to wait 

 two hours in the drenching rain, until a ran- 

 cka could be made. The moment my bed was 

 placed, I crept into it, as my only comfort, 

 and felt myself attacked by rheumatic pains, 

 and every symptom of intermittent fever. I 

 took some hot chocolate, and went to sleep. 



Jan. 25th. Pushed on, as soon as we had 



