A Visit to Colombia in the Years 1822 1823 By Laguayra And Caracas Over the
A Visit to Colombia in the Years 1822 1823 By Laguayra And Caracas Over the
William Duane
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As this was not for me to discuss, I said only " humph I" and he asked if that was not a just idea. I simply replied, that I did not possess the data which would justify me in forming any opinion. At this moment the 454 VISIT TO COLOMBIA. alcalde, who had been reported several leagues out of town, appeared, issuing from an inner apartment, and presented himself to the hidalgo, saying it was by mistake he was re- ported absent ! We solicited quarters, and mules for the next morning, made our low...est bow, and followed tlie alcalde across the great square, where good quarters indeed were given us. Reflecting on the hospitality we had experienced from the moment wc entered Merida up to this place, I never could conjecture or account for the incivility of this man in office ; and 1 could not but exult in the reflection that the country must be fortunate, indeed, which, in a long line of a thousand miles, has so few in public stations who know not what best becomes a public oflftcer, or is most reputable to his country and government ; yet this man, with all his des- garganillada y desemejanzay may have some apology at home as powerful as our long fasting : however, we ate and slept as if nothing had happened, and were laughing in the morning of Saturday over our chocolate at the past day*s adventure, when a corps of smart horses were drawn up before our quarters instead of mules ; which, as their gait is more lively, and action more rapid, we found agreeable as a variety, though, in the end, much more fatiguing than the unvarying step and motion of the mule.
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