sobre el clima de Lima" page 67 .-- Azara's "Travels" volume 1 page 381 .-- Ulloa's "Voyage" volume 2 page 28 .-- Burchell's "Travels" volume 2 page 524 .-- Webster's "Description of the Azores" page 124.--"Voyage a l'Isle de France par un Officier du Roi" tome 1 page 248.--"Description of St.Helena" page 123.) In so strange a disease some information might possibly be gained by considering the circumstances under which it originates in distant climates; for it is improbable that a dog already bitten should have been brought to these distant countries.
At night a stranger arrived at the house of Don Benito and asked permission to sleep there.

He said he had been wandering about the mountains for seventeen days, having lost his way.

He started from Guasco, and being accustomed to travelling in the Cordillera, did not expect any difficulty in following the track to Copiapo; but he soon became involved in a labyrinth of mountains whence he could not escape.

Some of his mules had fallen over precipices and he had been in great distress.

His chief difficulty arose from not knowing where to find water in the lower country, so that he was obliged to keep bordering the central ranges.
We returned down the valley, and on the 22nd reached the town of Copiapo.