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that untired patience, which never relaxes dur- 

 ing a long and painful recovery ? It has been 

 remarked, that, with the exception of a few 

 very populous towns, hospitality has not yet 

 perceptibly diminished since the first establish- 

 ment of the Spanish colonists in the new world. 

 It is distressing to think, that this change will 

 take place, when population and colonial indus- 

 try shall have made more rapid progress ; and 

 that this state of society, which we are agreed 

 to call an advanced state of civilization, will 

 by degrees have banished " the Old Castilian 

 frankness." 



Among the sick who landed at Cumana was 

 a negro, who fell into a state of insanity a few 

 days after our arrival ; he died in this deplorable 

 condition, though his master, almost seventy 

 years old, who had left Europe to settle at Sans 

 Bias, at the entrance of the gulf of California, 

 had attended him with the greatest care. I 

 relate this fact as a proof of it's sometimes hap- 

 pening that men born under the torrid zone, 

 after having dwelt in temperate climates, feel 

 the pernicious effects of the heat of the tropics. 

 The negro was a young man, eighteen years of 

 age, very robust, and born on the coast of 

 Guinea: an abode of some years on the high 

 plain of Castile, and given his organization that 

 kind of irritability, which renders the miasms 



