122 SAN FERNANDO. 



are adopted, or a code of laws made and 

 enforced for the government of these men, 

 many persons will be prevented from tra- 

 ding or travelling in the country. 



Stopped for the night at San Fernando, 

 having only gone four leagues. 



Sunday, 20th. I^ose at day-light to renew 

 our journey. Found that the only boga of 

 the original crew had absconded, and had 

 enticed away with him one of the new 

 comers. Wrote by an express to the Juez 

 Politico, desiring to have them taken up 

 if possible. We had now two bogas to hire, 

 to take us to Pinon, where we expected 

 to procure the number we required. 



San Fernando is a pretty spot : the dif- 

 ferent cottages forming the village are each 

 embowered in groups of trees, so that each 

 has, at a distance, the appearance of a 



