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to repel the insurgents ; at the same time he offered
himself to aid the cause, by presenting a sum of
1000 piastres, twenty loads of corn, and two regi-
ments, raised and equipped at his expense. Thou oh
his pecuniary assistance was very properly declined,
his zeal was publicly applauded by all orders of
people, and testified by authentic documents ex-
pressive of their gratitude. When the insurrection
was quelled, Dombey generously presented to the
hospital of St Jean de Dieu the sum he had offered
towards the defence of the state,

Shortly after these events he returned to Lima,
where he had the mortification of hearing that his
first collection had been captured by the English,
and redeemed at Lisbon by the Spanish Govern-
ment. In consequence of this mishap, a very
valuable part of it, the ancient Peruvian vases, and
a complete dress of one of the Incas, which he
had destined for his own sovereign, had been pre-
sented to the Spanish monarch; duplicates of the
dried plants and seeds only having been forwarded
to Paris,

In the meantime, though enfeebled by his long
and laborious journeys, Dombey determined to
accomplish a visit to Chili; and leaving his more
recent acquisitions in safety at Lima, he com-
menced his undertaking. This had been from the
first a principal object of his mission, on account of