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has kindly asked me to be his guest during his 

 residence in that city. 



The summer, as it advances, is becoming pro- 

 digiously hot, and the mosquitoes are the pest 

 of one's life, by day and by night. 



I am learning Spanish, by attending to the 

 conversation of an intelligent little dwarf master 

 who is teaching Mrs. Hamilton. He is married 

 to a jealous Peruvian wife, and is so afraid of 

 her tyrannical temper that he says he has not 

 dared to inform her that he is teaching a lady ; 



rescue with any certainty. It was a little curious that, on 

 this occasion, Neptune was indebted as much to his worst 

 enemies as to his best friends, for his ultimate safety. A 

 band of desperate gulls were observed to haunt and fly 

 around a particular spot in the ocean, as if watching for 

 their prey, and the boat's crew ingeniously conjectured that 

 the unhappy Newfoundland was the devoted object of 

 their attention. To this beacon they steered, and deli- 

 vered our friend, who had not prayed to " all the watery 

 gods" in vain. 



