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2 14 FENIX the godos do not pay for our sufferings 1 do not think it wil! be my fault. The ships' crews were never more healthy. 1 shall deliver to Wilkinson, 33 with this, two packets for you for him to forward by the first opportunity. One contains a work translated from the French by General [ ] and Bland's report 34. The other is a collection of various caricatures, pamphlets, and some Cobbett's registers 35. Amongst my pepers is also another packet for you containing various letters, but this is only to be forwarded to you should 1 be knocked off the hooks by any chance. As 1 shall write to you from the shore I shall add nothing more at present. In fact, to say the truth, 1 cannot think of any thing else to scrawl about just now. I t is, besides, very late at night, and my candle is going out, therefore good bye and. Believe me, My dear Paroissien, Evev yours most sincerely, W. Miller. My best remembrances to Col. Martinez 36, Mr. Monteagudo 37, and Garcia 38. Te11 the former, if 1 do not write to him, how 1 am getting on, and that 1 was riever more anxious to see him y mis demas compañeros qe. ahora. Vally of Locumba. 8 June, 1821. EvHy dear Paroissien, For the particulars of our small successes at Mirabi, Moquegua and La Calera 39, 1 refer you to the oficial reports. Nothing since has occurred wodh mentioning relating to military operations excepting that Ramirez 40 has collected in Arequipa about 1000 veterans. AIthought our force does not exceed oxie half this nurnber I arn pretty certain he will not attack us. We are now retiring towards Sama where perhaps we shall remain some time. If %heold gentleman should be enticed to follow us as far Tacna perhaps we Captain William Wilkinson. Theodorick Bland, one of the three commissioners sent from the United State to South America in 1817-18. His report was published a t Washington in 1819 and a bowdlerized version appeared in London in 1820. It is conveniently accessible in W. R. Manning, ed., Diplomatic Correspondence of fhe United Sfates concerning the Independence of fhe Latin-Arnerican Nafions ( 3 vols., New York, 1925). William Cobbett's Weekly Political Register began publication in 1802. See note 8. Bernardo Monteagudo, Secretario de Guerra. See note 18. For the "affair" of Mirave see Miller, Memoirs, i 299-303. General Juan Ramírez Orozco. Fénix: Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú. N.10, 1954