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Show 2 10 JOUHNAL Of A VOYAGE ficent, and their husbands generosity enough to allow them to think thctnsclvcs rational beings, to be treak d on an equality, to receive the visits of th ir friends, and give way to the hospitality of their dispositions without constraint: they were consequently the envy of the ladies, and the subject of scandal to prudes ; their houses were the rendezvous of all the fashionable xnale society; and every man who was conspicuous for science, arts or arms, was succ to meet a welcome. We, as unfortunat ' strangers, were consequently not forgotten. I returned with Malgares to the house of his fath ·r-in-law, li utcnant colonel Mayner, who was originally fron1 Cadiz, a man Qf good information. 6tb April, Monday.-Dined with the g-eneral. Wri-ting, &c. In the evening visited Malgares and the secretary. After dinner wine was set on the tabl , and we were entertained with songs in the rrcnch, Ita]ian, panish and English languages. J\.ccustomed as I w::ts to ~itting sor:1c time after dinn r I forgot their siesta, (or r epose after dmuer) until Walker suggested the thing to 1ne, when we retired. 7th April, Tucsday.-Dined at Don Antonio Caberairi's, in company with Villamil, Zuloaga, Walker, &c ..... Sent in a sketch of my voyage to the general. Spent the evening at colonel Mayner's with Malgares. 8th April, J!Vcdncsday.- Visited the treasurer, who showed 1ne the double-barrel gun given by governor Claiborne, and another formerly the property of Nolan. 9t!J April, Tbz~rsday.-In the evening was informed that David Fero was in town and wished to speak to me. This man had ~ormerly been my father's ensign, and was taken with Nolan's party at the time the latter ' as killed. lie possessed a brave soul, and had withstood every op· THROUGH TilE INTERIOR PROVINCES, &c. 24. L pression since his being made prisoner, with ,Lstonishing fortitude. Although his leaving the place of his confinement (the village of St. Jeronimie) without the knowledge of the general, was in some mea ur _, clandrst1nc, yet, a countryman, an acquaintance, and formerly a brother oldier, in a strange land, in distress, had v ntured much to sec me-could I deny him the interview from any motives of delicacy ? No; forbid it humanity! forbid it every sentiment of my soul ! Our meeting was affecting, tears standing in his eyes. He informed me the particulars of their being taken, and many other circumstance .. , ince their being in the country. I promised to do ~II T cnu lcl fm· hin1 consist nt with my character and honor, and their having enter ed th country without the authority of the United States. .L\s he was obliged to leave the town before day, he called on tne at my quarters, when I bid him adieu, and gave him what my purse afForded, not what my beart dictated. lOth April, Friday.-In the evening at colonel l\1aynor's. Captain Rodiriques arrived fr01n the province of Texas, who had been under arrest one year, for going to Natchitoches with the n1arquis Cassa Calvo. 1 Lth April, Saturday.-Rode out in the coach with Malgares; was hospitably entertained at the house of one of the Vallois : here we drank London Porter. Visited the secretary Villamil. 12tb April, Sunday.- Dined (with the doctor) at Don Antonio Caberaric's with our usual guests. In the evening at the public walks. 13th April, Monday.-Nothing extraordinary. 14th April, Tucsday.-Spent the forenoon in writing; th.e. afternoon at Don Antonio Caberaric's. 15th April. Wcdncsday.-Spent the evening at 'olonel Hh |