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have surprised a Genesee farmer; but perhaps, where 

 labour was so little costly, it answered as well as 

 the best threshing machine that could be invented. 



The next day we had another welcome visiter in 

 our fellow-passenger, Mr. Camerden, who was just 

 from Campeachy, where he had seen New- York 

 papers to the third of November. Knowing our 

 deep interest in the affairs of our country, and post- 

 poning his own curiosity about the ruins, he hasten- 

 ed to communicate to us the result of the city elec- 

 tions, viz., a contest in the sixth ward and entire un- 

 certainty which party was uppermost. 



Unfortunately, Mr. Camerden, not being in very 

 good health at the time, was also infected with ap- 

 prehensions about Uxmal, and as El Norte still con- 

 tinued, the coldness and rain made him uneasy in a 

 place of such bad reputation. Having no ill feel- 

 ings against him and no spare moscheto-net, we did 

 not ask him to remain at night, and he accompa- 

 nied Don Simon to the hacienda to sleep. 



The next day Doctor Cabot had a professional 

 engagement at the hacienda. In both my expedi- 

 tions into that region of country our medical de- 

 partment was incomplete. On the former occasion 

 we had a medicine-chest, but no doctor, and this 

 time we had a doctor, but no medicine-chest. This 

 necessary appendage had been accidentally left on 

 board the ship, and did not come to our hands till 

 some time afterward. We had only a small stock 

 purchased in Merida, and on this account, as well 



