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As soon as the reception had terminated, Don Pablo had offered to the Spanish envoys and to the Portuguese officer -- that is to say, to Don Zeno Cabral, whom he was far from suspecting was a guest in his camp -- a collation that the latter had accepted.
Although camped in one of the most inaccessible parts of the Cordilleras, the Pincheyras -- thanks to their continual excursions, to the robberies and pillage they committed in the _chacras_, the towns and even the cities situated on the two sides of the mountains -- were well provisioned; their retreat was filled with the rarest and most delicate things.