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CH. XXII.]
TO GUATEMALA.
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CHAPTER XXII.
Revisit the President.—Difficulty of returning to England.—Principal families of fortune.—Impediment to relations with Great Britain.—Guatemalian Ladies.—Don José de Falle.—The Archbishop.—Party feeling.
I repeated a visit this day to the president: he kindly informed me that he had ordered communications to be sent to the different departments to furnish as speedily as possible the information which I had previously solicited. My departure was arranged for the middle of next month, because I wished to avail myself of a passage home in one of the mercantile vessels which sail, with convoy from Belize, on the 1st of August.
I had heard that proceeding through the Gulf of Florida in a single vessel was, at this time, almost certain exposition to piracy of the most sanguinary nature, and as the journey to the coast would be almost
