Chap. Y.—B. S.] DEPARTURE PROM OCOTAL. 71 
Our Ocotal friends were evidently rather mortified 
when they discovered what our views were, having 
hoped that we would lay out a little money in their 
town, but they soon seemed to recover their spirit, 
and on the morning of the 19th of April, when we 
took our departure, a whole calvalcade of gentlemen 
accompanied us as far as the river Coco, where they 
hade us adieu, and we once more thanked them 
cordially for their kindness to us. 
Before leaving this part of the country, I should 
not omit alluding to a gigantic saurian, said to have 
been seen in Hew Segovia, and of the vertebrae of 
which people are reported to have made footstools. An 
account of u the monster,” of which I did not hear 
until I had returned to Leon, fills several columns of 
the official Gazette of Nicaragua, and is from the 
pen of one Paulino Montenegro, B.A. The author 
states that, having heard of the existence of a gi¬ 
gantic reptile near La Cuchilla, he started, in company 
with several friends, to have a look at the animal, 
which was said to have made burrows in the man¬ 
ner of moles, and been the cause of uprooting trees 
and making large stones roll downhill. He found 
everything as represented, and saw the course the 
animal, or rather animals—for there appeared to have 
been two of different sizes—had taken. He did not 
obtain a sight of the creatures themselves; but, from 
out the pillars, a true sign that the lode will not meet or pay the 
expenses of working in depth. 
“La Gloria , another of the Depilto Mines, is situated about half a 
mile north of Santa Ana, and of no value. The lode is in a hard rock, 
runs east and west, and is about four inches wide.”—J. Holman. 
