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the doorway of Senor Gazoos house to look 

 after the boatmen^ who, from the usual dilatory 

 movements and indolent habits of the natives, 

 were not ready to start at the time appointed. 

 At last, my impatience induced me to have 

 all the baggage placed in the canoe, and to 

 take my own seat there, in order, that when they 

 saw me sitting in solitary impatience, they 

 might become the more sensible of my just 

 right to grumble at their want of punctuahty. 

 The whole party soon afterwards appeared, 



to his own house, accused of murder, and expected to 

 be taken to a common prison for malefactors, as soon as 

 his wounds were well enough to permit him to be 

 removed. 



The subsequent details of this proceeding are now facts 

 of public notoriety. In case of the government of Gra- 

 nada refusing to deliver the vice-consul of his British 

 Majesty from prison, pay to him a thousand pounds, and 

 to make the British government an ample apology for an 

 outrage sanctioned by the authorities of the place, the 

 ports on both sides of the isthmus were to be blockaded, 

 and further measures were to follow if necessary. After 

 refusing for a time to comply with the just demands of this 

 country, the government of Bogota yielded the point, and 

 fulfilled the conditions required of them just in time to 

 save the isthmus from a better government. 



