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2 16 FENIX 1 expect great assistance from him. But 1 do not know how it is 1 find hardly any volunteers when there is any likelihood of going to hammer and ton.gs . When you havr read this tear it up. 11 MZLLER TO PAROZSSZEN Tacna. 1 July, 1821. My dear Paroissien, I have written to you one or two long letters since the affair a t Mirabi which 1 hope will rearh your hands if they have not already found their way to them. Not a word have I heard from you since our departure from that agreeabfe place Pisco. I-Iowever, the knowledge of there having been no con- veyance by which you could have forwarded a line consoles me for your si- Ience, but it does not decrease the anxiety I feel to know how you are jogging on, with the Head Quarter news etc., etc. 1 am certain it is useless to beg of you not to forget your old compagnon d'arm, unless indeid the acclama- tions of the Limeñas, and the shouts of victory, which must have alrnost drowned every other thought, upon your entry into the capital of Peru 49, have had en unaccountable effect upon you which I do not believe; but then pojair, tic? soft embreces of the fair, I recollect, have sometimes a wonderful tffect upon your warm constitution, r-\d m7ho knows what may have taken place? The division is here and it consists of 600 plazas including the pasados of Arica and marines. Not five men of 2d, 4th or 11th exist effective and there are 125 rnen now in hospital. We do not recruit for the want of arms. Th e officers and men hitherto have behaved admirably well. The inhabitants are highly pleased with them and 1 have had no trouble originating from rows, niisunderstandings, etc. In fact in this respect we are al1 remarkably com- fortable. We are quite in the dark as to the result of the armistice 50, but 1 expect hourly to hear from G1. Rnmirez 5 1 on the subject wko is civil in his comrnu- -rication with rne. hccording to al! acto-~nt-s they are extremely anxious to look at the patriots in Arequipa and 1 expect La Division Libertadora will be welI re- ceived if it ever go there. We are not badly off here. The peopIe are un- commonly civil and attentive; and they tell me the niñas in general are not unkind. 49. Miller aaticipates. The Iiberating army did not enter Lima till 10 July. YO. The arinistice of Punchauca, signed on 23 May. 51. See note 40. Fénix: Revista de la Biblioteca Nacional del Perú. N.10, 1954