I am inclined to think there is a positive pleasure in possessing and handling guns and pistols, whether they are likely to be of any use or not.

Indeed, while travelling through the western and southern States of America, where such things are very generally carried, I was the possessor of a five-barrelled revolver, and admit that I derived an amount of mild satisfaction from carrying it about, and shooting at a mark with it, that amply compensated for the loss of two dollars I incurred by selling it to a Jew at New Orleans.
We rode on to Regla, soon finding that our guide had never been there before; so, next morning, we kept the two horses and dismissed him with ignominy.

A fine road leads from the Real to Regla, for all the silver-ore from the mines is conveyed there to have the silver separated from it.

My notes of our ride mention a great water-wheel: sections of porphyritic rocks, with enormous masses of alluvial soil lying upon them: steep ravines: arroyos, cut by mountain-streams, and forests of pine-trees--a thoroughly Alpine district altogether.

At Regla it became evident that our letter of introduction was not a mere complimentary affair.