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CHAPTER VII. 
DEPARTURE PROM LEON POR CHONTALES.-HUGE TREE AT NA- 
GAROTE.— RELIEVING A THIRSTY SOUL.-MANAGUA.-GENERAL 
MARTINEZ.-LAGOON OP T1SCAPA.-ARRIVAL AT LIBERTAD. 
By keeping as quiet as tlic numerous visitors who 
called upon me to offer mining and other properties 
would let me, and by constant application of cold 
water, I was able to put my poor head once more 
in something like working order; and as soon as I 
found myself sufficiently well I started for Chontales, 
quite by myself, as the servant I had engaged left me 
in the lurch the last moment. 
Passing and stopping for a few hours at Pueblo 
Nuevo, with its curious cactus fences, I put up for the 
night at Nagarote, where I measured a famous geni- 
saro-tree (Pithecololium Saman, Benth.), belonging to 
the Mimosa tribe, of which the villagers are justly 
proud, and for which 200 dollars have been offered—a 
high price in a country where timber abounds; and 
yet they had the public spirit—the rarest of virtues in 
