• 4; 



TO 



SIMON BOLIVAR, 



LIBERATOR AND PRESIDENT 



OF 



COLOMBIA, 



DICTATOR OF PERU, GENERALISSIMO OF THE ARMIES, 

 &C. &C. &:c. 



Your Excellency, 



Pn my arrival in Colombia in 1823, I 

 had many letters of introduction, which I 

 had hoped to have delivered into your hands. 

 Unfortunately for me, though happily for 

 Colombia, you were engaged in combating 

 in the cause of Freedom at too great a dis- 

 tance to admit of the completion of my wish 

 for an introduction to a warrior, whose fame 

 is only bounded where civilization ceases. 



