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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



, ward of fifty miles ; and such had been the interest of 

 the day's work, that, though my first effort, I never suf- 

 fered from it. 



The arrangements for my voyage down the Pacific 

 were soon made. The servant to whom I referred was 

 a native of Costa Rica, then on his way home, after a 

 long absence, with a cargo of merchandise belonging to 

 himself. He was a tall, good-looking fellow, dressed 

 in a Guatimala jacket or coton, a pair of Mexican leath- 

 er trousers, with buttons down the sides, and a steeple- 

 crowned, broad-brimmed, drab wool hat, altogether far 

 superior to any servant I saw in the country ; and I 

 think if it had not been for him I should not have un- 

 dertaken the journey. The reader will perhaps be 

 shocked to hear that his name was Jesus^ pronounced 

 in Spanish ^Hezoos, by which latter appellation, to avoid 

 what might be considered profanity, I shall hereafter 

 call him. 



