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MONPOX. 



English a lively, pleasing, intelligent woman; 

 the contrast of whose fair features and dark 

 glossy tresses, with the swarthy complexion 

 and neglected locks of the Colombian 

 women, was greatly to the advantage of 

 this lady in particular, and our country- 

 women in general, who are as unrivalled 

 in personal delicacy as in form and com- 

 plexion. The evening was most agreeable, 

 and its recollection will long remain im- 

 pressed on my memory. 



1 9th. Began to embark our luggage at 

 daylight, but had a great deal of trouble 

 with the two bogas remaining of the original 

 set, who were so insolent and refractory, 

 refusing to work and insisting on drink, that 

 I was under the necessity (on a hint I had 

 . received from authority) to take the law into 

 my own hands, and not only gave one of them 

 a sound drubbing, but afterwards got him 



