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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



me to live in such a country. The hacienda was 

 in an unusually pretty situation. Opposite was a 

 long line of hills ; the sun was setting, and it was 

 precisely the hour and the scene for a country ram- 

 ble ; but the owner of thousands of acres could nev- 

 er diverge from the beaten path without bringing 

 these pests upon him. 



I returned to the house, where the major domo 

 kindly provided me with warm water for a bath, 

 which cooled the fever of my blood. At night, for 

 the first time in the country, we had at one end of 

 the room the hammocks of the women, but this was 

 not so bad as ants or garrapatas. 



