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goats, fowls, and other animals. Some of the people 
were suffering from fever, and were glad of some little 
medicine, which I was able to spare them. 
We left Bonbon early the next morning, and tra¬ 
velled about three leagues more in the hot valleys, the 
vegetation of which was very much like that of the 
Pacific coast of the Isthmus of Panama, many of the 
species being identically the same in both countries. 
Again ascending some mountain-ridges, we were 
once more greeted by the pine-trees and a delightfully 
cool breeze.* Until now there had been no sign of 
any rain, but on this day, the 8th of April, we had a 
few slight showers. An enterprising Nicaraguan, 
Don P. Castellon, had established here a coffee 
plantation, said to contain 40,000 trees. About one 
o’clock we reached Pueblo Nuevo, situated in a rich 
plain, full of cattle, and in and about which there 
are stated to be about 1000 inhabitants. There is a 
tolerably large church, but neither school nor prison, 
as the alcalde told me with a grin. The curate was 
one of those numerous New Granadian priests who 
had preferred exile to the oath of allegiance to the 
Constitution of their country, and who on foreign 
soil were never tired of abusing the Government which 
had merely asked of them what it may fairly expect 
from every right-minded citizen. 
* Here I found a species of Oreopanax with large palmate leaves, 
new to me ; a purple Salvia , a pink Melastomacea, and Pteris aquilina; 
a species of Rhipsalis grew on the pine-trees. Saw no snakes, and only 
one monkey, some macaws, and that beautiful bird with two long 
feathers in tail, the Trogon resplendens (which I have also met with 
as far south as the Volcan de Chiriqui in Yeraguas). 
