. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . a B . S g o a PP o ? - PP CO M CO Qj b a B ^ w pa o o PP PP iZi <J BB a O a O pg /. a o Ph b B O U B pa o 21G TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES, chap. xi. We got back to the second camp soon after mid-day; and,as there was no prospect of improvement in the weather, packedii]) and returned to Quito. It was now close upon Easter, andwe could not leave again until Good Friday was over. Giacometti,on that day, at considerable trouble to himself, thoughtfullyprovided his guests with salt fish for dinner ; and though thisnauseous diet was eaten wit
. Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator . a B . S g o a PP o ? - PP CO M CO Qj b a B ^ w pa o o PP PP iZi <J BB a O a O pg /. a o Ph b B O U B pa o 21G TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES, chap. xi. We got back to the second camp soon after mid-day; and,as there was no prospect of improvement in the weather, packedii]) and returned to Quito. It was now close upon Easter, andwe could not leave again until Good Friday was over. Giacometti,on that day, at considerable trouble to himself, thoughtfullyprovided his guests with salt fish for dinner ; and though thisnauseous diet was eaten with meekness and resignation by allgood Catholics, one of the boarders—a Yankee Jew—protested,in language which would have been rough in the Western States,against the subtraction of his customary pound of flesh as a fraudon his stomach, and against the substitute as an insult to hisreligion. The next day we left Quito by the road to the North,on our way to Cayambe, and did not return again to the Capitalbefore the third of ON THE ROAD.
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