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fortnight. Having lost all hope of the arrival 

 of a packet from Cumana, we availed ourselves 

 of an American vessel, laden at Nueva Barcelona 

 with salt provision for the Isle of Cuba. We 

 had now passed sixteen months on this coast, 

 and in the interior of Venezuela. Although we 

 had still more than fifty thousand francs left in 

 bills of exchange on the first houses at the Ha- 

 vannah, we should have felt a very distressing 

 want of funds, if the governor of Cumana had 

 not made us all the advances we wished. The 

 delicacy of Mr. d'Emparan s conduct toward 

 strangers, who were entirely unknown to him, 

 claims the highest praise, and the warmest gra- 

 titude. I mention these personal incidents, in 

 order to warn travellers not to trust too much 

 to the communications between the different 

 colonies of the same country. In the state of 

 commerce at Cumana and Caraccas in the year 

 1799, it would have been easier to make use 

 of a draught upon Cadiz or London, than upon 

 Carthagena, the Havannah, or Vera Cruz. We 

 parted from our friends at Cumana on the 16th 

 of November, to make the passage for the third 

 time across the gulf of Cariaco to Nueva Bar- 

 celona. The night was cool, and delicious. It 

 was not without emotion, that we saw for the 

 last time the disk of the Moon illuminating the 

 summit of the cocoa-trees, that surround the 



