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cefTive melancholy; and being informed that It was 

 owing to an unhappy change of circumilances, from 

 a plentiful fortune to the mofl: extreme poverty, the 

 devil, with a chearful air, told him, that he would 

 iliew him a fpot, from whence he might have what 

 quantity of gold he pleafed, the mine being abfoiutcly 

 inexhauftible. The Spaniard embraced the offer with 

 the greateil tranfport of joy and concluding that it 

 would at lead prove a journey of fom.e days, pur- 

 chafed, with the penurious remains of his fubftance, a 

 few ioaves, which he packed up in his wallet. And 

 his mind being fomething eafier from thefe flattering 

 promifes, laid himfelf down to reft till the time ap- 

 pointed, when he was to call upon his guide. But 

 whea he awaked, he found himfelf in a country ab- 

 folutely unknown, the plain of Chequipata lying be- 

 fore him, and himfelf reclined on the eminence of 

 Supay-urco. His aPconiihm.ent, at viewing fuch mul- 

 titudes of ftrange objeds, can be much better coD'- 

 ceived than expreiTed. For fome timie indeed he 

 doubted W'hether they were real or illufive, till tired 

 with uncertainties, and determined to know in what 

 country he was, he dired:ed his way to a houfe of 

 fome figure, w^hich he faw at a diftance. This hap- 

 pened fortunately to belong to a Spaniard, who was 

 a native of the fame province of Eftramadura ; and 

 being informed by his fervants that a ftranger of the 

 fame country was at the gate, the mafter, pleafmg 

 himfelf with the hopes of hearino; fome news from 

 his native land, ordered him to brought in, received 

 him with great marks of friendiliip, and, being at 

 breakfaft, TOade him fit down with him, and began to 

 enter on the pleafing enquiry after his friends and re- 

 lations ; but his gueil: taking out one of his loaves, 

 which the gentlemian knew vv/as baked in Spain, and 

 -finding it quite new, was fo loft in aftonifhment, that 

 he forgot both his breakfaft and relations, infifcing 

 (though afraid to hear) that his apparent countryman 

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