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in his chest , " which Lieut . Hardy subdued by keeping him immersed in the river . * ' I kept him iu till his pulse was reduced to ninety-three , and I could bring it no lower , I theu placed his bed in a cool place , and made him take , every half hour , two charcoal pills . " In the evening the burning sensation returned ; " J therefore repeated the cold
bath , and increased the number of pills . " Iu eight days * time the patient was well . Eventually , the author was so happy as to cure himself of the complaint of the chest brought on by diving . ( P . 419 . ) We could give a receipt for Hydrophobia , but we should be unwilling to interfere with the Fire King ; we will , therefore , favour our readers with a mvd-hath \
" A young married lady" ( in Villa del FuerteJ ** finding herself excessively oppressed with the heat of the weather , although she had thrown windows and doors open to cool the room , and had likewise poured water over herself to refresh her body , adopted the following excellent expedient , " which must be told in her own words : " I made a large
hole in the middle of the floor , by first removing the bricks . Into this hole I poured a sufficient quantity of water to knead up a large portiou of earth , which I did first with a stick , and afterwards with my hands , till the mass was as thick as paste . I then undressed myself entirely and entered the hole , in which I sat down and besmeared every part of my body ; and as I found myself very comfortable and refreshed , I lay down
and rolled myself in the mud . " She added , ** When my Jiusbaud returned , would you believe it , that what with my large figure , and my being completely covered with mud , he imagined that he beheld a monster rise , as it were , out of the bowels of the earth ; and he stood for some moments looking in amazement , unable to imagine what sort of an animal had got into the house . " ( P , 369 . ) " The nation which is called the Axua , " says
our author , ** is very numerous . "" They adorn their head with mud instead of flowers ; and they also delight in painting their bodies with it . On a hot day it is by no means uncommon to see them weltering in the mud like pigs ! " The price of human flesh , as may be expected
in such a country , is low . Being moved on one occasion , rather by compassion than wisdom , Lieutenant Hardy offered a pocket handkerchief in exchange for a little girl six years old , which was accepted ; this child had been stolen . Aff terwards having two children in his posbession , he offered half a yard of red
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baize for a governess ; t ( but there was no making a bargain . " The lady tvhom he proposed to purchase at this rate , was , however , a beauty ; " her neck and wrists were adorned with shells
curiously strung ; her hair fell in graceful ringlets about her delicate shoulders , and her figure was straight and extremely well proportioned . " She paid the author a visit when he was moored in the Red Hiver , making her appearance h la nage , with one of her companions ; " I put out my hand , " says he , " to lay hold of one of the swimmers , as the rapid tide was bearing the Indian ' s head under water . The hand was held eagerly up , and when I caught hold of it , 1 was not a little surprised to find that it belonged to the slender form of a young lady , of about sixteen or seventeen years of age . "
Being accommodated with a jacket , and subsequently with a sheet , the young lady established herself upon deck with great coolness , aud devoured biscuit and frijoles with perfect good humour . " In vain 1 made signs to inquire the nieauing of her visit , " says Lieut . Hardy ; ' she remained feasting with as much composure and uuconcern as if she had been
in the midst of her friends . " Finally , as the Indian who accompanied her would not exchange her for half a yard of red baize , they were both sent to shore in a boat , aud heard of no more .
With the political state of the country , or the mining departmeut , our author troubles himself very little ; but under the latter head he has some capital stories . " A Mexicau miner , " says he , " is a man endowed with an
extraordinary degree of what may be termed technical eloquence , which he deals out with great vehemence , aud frequently without any regard to fact . He seems , indeed , to have his imagination for ever overheated , and his ideas have always a golden tint , which renders them equally delusive to himself , and others who rely upon him . No class of men , however , are without some honest individuals amongst them , but 1 have never yet met with more
than one miuer whom I have every reason to consider truly honest . About two or three years ago , a swindler iixed a large specialeu of ore , taken from the rich mine of Alamos , most ingeniously in the vein of a mine not a hundred leagues distant from thence . When the deception was perfect , he took a certain foreigner to the mine , W give him ocular demonstration of its worth . The parties descended with hammer and bolt , and a portion of the Identical bit of ore which had been stuck on to the vein , was detached , and
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Monthly Report of General Literature . 86 ST
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1829, page 869, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2579/page/53/
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