Memoir of An Eventful Expedition in Central America
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They would be ready in two days; they had just returned across the mountains from San Antonia de Guista, and needed rest and repairs. There was a frankness and simplicity about these fine fellows which would bear the severest scrutiny, and we could only admit the bare possibility of our being mistaken. "It took us three days, however, to procure a full supply of the proper kind of provisions for a fortnight's abode in the sky, and on the fourth, (May 5th, ) we paid our formal respects to th...e Cura, and started for the ascent--he not forgetting to remind us of the promise to report to him the precise geographical locality of our discovery. " The journal is again blank until May 9th, when the writer says, "Ouraltitude, by barometer, this morning, is over 6000 feet above the valleywhich we crossed three days ago; the view of it and its surroundingmountains, sublime with chasms, yet grotesque in outline, and allheavily gilded with the setting sun, is one of the most oppressivelygorgeous I ever beheld.
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