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by only seven lancers, the rest having gone 

 back with prisoners. At this place, he slept 

 at one end of a counter, whilst his horse was 

 eating maize at the other. He often laugh- 

 ingly said, that he owed the fruits of this 

 victory to the sounding of the trumpet. 



Colonel Rocke, an Englishman, having 

 been one night robbed of all his baggage in 

 the plains of the Apure, complained of it to 

 Bolivar, who, unable to recover what had 

 been lost, divided his own stock with him, 

 giving him two pair of trowsers and two 

 shirts ; Bolivar himself having only four of 

 each. 



Colonel Mackintosh, an officer who highly 

 distinguished himself in the Colombian ser- 

 vice, relates the following: On the expe- 

 dition to New Grenada, in 1819, we had a 

 number of rapid mountain-torrents to pass : 

 in order to cross those which were not ford- 

 able, we dragged along two smair canoes, 

 fastened to the tails of horses, by means of 



