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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



such monument of the purity and simplicity of abo- 

 riginal art. 



Such is a brief description of the Casa del Go- 

 bernador, with its three great terraces, and the build- 

 ings and structures upon the grand platform of the 

 second. From the place which we had fixed upon 

 as our residence r and the constant necessity of as- 

 cending and descending the terraces, it was with 

 these that we became the soonest familiar. The 

 reader will be able to form some idea of the subjects 

 that engaged our attention, and the strange spectacle 

 that we had constantly before our eyes. 



