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Show CHAPTER XII. JtEFLECTIONS ON THE DIARY. Although I have given in the Diary some account of the nations whom I have seen, and of others of whom I have been informed, all these being many and wide- spread, yet for this very reason is its disorder the greater; neither have I been able to explain myself properly, nor even when I could treat day by day to some extent of that which I saw, heard, or experienced, could I do so with particularity, it happening to me at every step to verify in a succeeding nation that which in the preceding one I had not understood or had doubted. Furthermore, having been twice in some nations, time and circumstances have multiplied the accounts and elucidated information. I have not had an interpreter for every nation, but I am confident of having comprehended their reports well enough; for, whenever they desired to know whence I came and whither I was going ( mi origen y camino), they seated themselves on the ground and with a little stick drew a map, upon 441 |