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

AXGOSTURA DE PAYNE.
gostura River eighteen miles south of the 3Iaipdu by a fine towerbricldge of three hundred and sixty feet, it becomes reduced to a
mere gorge, wshere the Andes come down in the bold hill of
Chiyi, twenty-five hundred feet high, to within ninety or a hundred feet of a lowlier spur of the Coast Range. The river flows
northwardly between the two, and the railroad cuts the toe of
the Coast Range spur-the whole gorge being swept by the
river when swollen. This is the celebrated Anzgostura of the
Southern Railroad-the word signifying 2rrow pates-and is
sometimes called Angostura de Payne to distinguish it from
another Angostura further to the south.
A few miles beyond is the Convent of BIostazal, erected by
Don Pedro Jose' Luco who married his own niece by permission
of I-is ITLoliness the Pope, on condition that he would build and
support this convent on his hacienda in mitigation of the sin.
sTear the convent is the ac6u?zted b),id~ye, on the character of
wvhich for the supernatural, an adjacent hydraulic ram, erected
for the supply of a railroad tank with water, exercised a controlling influence; for when it was put in operation, the simple
and superstitious natives, ignorant of its presence and action,
thought its continued pumpings the moanings of an evil spirit
in the bridge, and sought the mediatorial offices of the Padre of
the convent, who came with paraphernalia, retinue, and expuLrgatorial prayers, to exorcise it. But the ram being incorrigible,
and continuing to pump, the spirit was supposed to be too much
for the good father; who, in consequence, was about to lose his
hold on the faith of his flock, when one of the railroad engineers,
dreading the loss of the padre's benign influence, explained to
him the mystery of the spiritual phenomenon, much to his 6dification and unconcealed merriment, and thus he was speedily
restored to the confidence of his rebellious parishioners.
The great valley soon resumes something of its former width,
and at the distance of nine miles from the Angostura, the
northern boundary is reached of the magnificent hacienda de la
Compania of Don Juau de dios Correa, containing ninety thousand acres of land. This gentleman's estate of San Jos(, on the
Aielipilla road, of one hundred and twenty thousand acres, has
alreadyi been spoken of. With such an example of landed pro
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