We sailed round Cape Horn, and when we reached Valparaiso I thanked the Englishman for my passage, treated the crew, and jumped on shore with twenty doubloons in my pocket, to make my fortune by the strength of my arm.

I soon fell in with an intelligent man, who took me to his _hacienda_, where I won my laurels as herdsman.

I was about half a year with him, and liked the life.

I was treated as a useful guest, and much admired as sportsman and horseman.

What did I need further?
We were just going to have a great buffalo hunt, when suddenly two soldiers made their appearance on the scene, and trotted me off with them to the town, where I was made over to the American consul; and as my uncle had moved heaven and earth to track me, and as I found, from a long letter he had written, that my father was really unhappy, I resolved to return to Europe by the next ship.