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have surprised a Genesee farmer; but perhaps, where 

 labour vs^as so Httle 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 



