What I saw on the west coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian Islands.: By H. Willis Baxley, M.D.

CHILEAN PIC-NIC.
nition to an attentive audience, composed chiefly of servants to
the manor born, whose general conduct, I was assured, was at
all times consistent with the teaching of the Apostle, to "put
away all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil
speaking, with malice;" and to "be obedient to them that are
(their) masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in
singleness of heart, as unto Christ." After the religious services
of the day, it became a question how the rest of it was to be spent.
This resulted in an agreement of family and friends to seek some
dell among the neighboring hills, and there, with forest bower
for dininlg-hall, and sward for festive board, to give the fleeting
hour to social pleasure and enjoyment of nature.
The busy note of preparation soon resounded throughout the
household, showing that all entered heartily into the spirit of
the impromptu pic-nic, a word which has not been rendered into
Spanish, but has been bodily transferred; and, unmusical as it
is in our " harsh, northern, hissing, grunting guttural," it sounds
melodious as uttered by the silver-tongued senoritas of this elysiuim. When the moment of starting came, carriages were filled
with matrons and patrons, and prancing steeds mounted by the
young and gay, a jovial son of merry Ellgland lifting his voice
above the din of departure in the unforgotten "Over the hills
and far away."
A distance of a mile and a half, in a direction opposite to that
by which we had entered the hacienda, over fields, across meadows, and along a river bank, brought us to the foot of the hills,
between two of which we passed; and, as our green avenue narrowed, the occupants of carriages were compelled to descend to
the humility of pedestrianism, and follow a ptlh through brake
and bramble, broken for us by the equestrians who had gone
before. Emerging from the chaparral, a valley was reached
shut in from the surrounding world in its entire circuit, except
where we entered, by hills mantled in verdure, and decked with
wild flowers. An arbor of Boldo and follle, twined with Arrayan, in nature's own profusion and fantastic architecture, stood
on a gentle slope, sufficiently capacious to accommodate the company; and when the lingering pedestrians reached that bower
of beauty, our happy predecessors were found enjoying its re
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