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into the dory. At the moment flags were run up at 

 the government staff, the fort, the courthouse, and the 

 government schooner, and a gun was fired from the 

 fort. As I crossed the bay, a salute of thirteen guns 

 was fired ; passing the fort, the soldiers presented arms, 

 the government schooner lowered and raised her en- 

 sign, and when I mounted the deck of the steam- 

 boat, the captain, with hat in hand, told me that he 

 had instructions to place her under my orders, and to 

 stop wherever I pleased. 



The reader will perhaps ask how I bore all these 

 honours. I had visited many cities, but it was the first 

 time that flags and cannon announced to the world that 

 I was going away. I was a novice, but I endeavoured 

 to behave as if I had been brought up to it ; and, to 

 tell the truth, my heart beat, and I felt proud ; for 

 these were honours paid to my country, and not to 

 me. 



To crown the glory of the parting scene, my good 

 friend Captain Hampton had charged his two four- 

 pounders, and when the steamboat got under way he 

 fired one, but the other would not go off". The cap- 

 tain of the steamboat had on board one puny gun, with 

 which he would have returned all their civilities ; but, 

 as he told me, to his great mortification, he had no 

 powder. 



The steamboat in which we embarked was the last 

 remnant of the stock in trade of a great Central Amer- 

 ican agricultural association, formed for building cities, 

 raising the price of land, accommodating emigrants, 

 and improvement generally. On the rich plains of the 

 province of Vera Paz they had established the site of 

 New Liverpool, which only wanted houses and a pop- 

 ulation tQ become a city. On the wheel of the boat 



