Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba (1883) (14594739009)

Identifier: oldmexicoherlost1883bish (find matches)
Title: Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Bishop, William Henry, 1847-1928
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel California -- Description and travel Arizona -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University



Text Appearing Before Image:
I have intended to multiplyeven my usual pains. I am one of those who have neverknown what it is to encounter on the w^ay the slightestdelay or annoyance. He seemed wounded in his finest sensibilities by an ap-pearance of mistrust, which was to him hitherto unknown.There w^ere considerations in his favor. He said that thecolonel, at another hotel, had paid the full sum in ad-vance, and this proved true. Whatever money Avas to betaken, besides, must be in the heavy silver coinage of thecountry, $16 to the pound, and to be rid of the weightand jingling of even a part of it was desirable. Still,on the whole, the contract was drawn in my way, bythe advice of the dark secretary of the Iturbide Hotel.Though it seemed almost cruel at the time to act inthis formal manner with so good a man, the precautionproved in the sequel to be very useful. III. My colonel was accompanied down to Cuernavaca inthe diligencia—in which we were all extremely jolted. ON HORSEBACK AND MULEBACK TO ACAPULCO. 267
Text Appearing After Image:
268 OLD MEXICO AND HER LOST PROVINCES. dusty, and uncomfortable togetlier — by two generals.They had apparently come to give him parting directionsabout his mission. One of tliem was a thick-set, black-bearded man, with a husky voice, and a conspicuous scarupon his face. I must not branch off too much into sideissues, but the history of the scar was that, while com-manding in Yucatan, he had ordered to be shot, on someof the ordinary revolutionary pretexts, a member of thepowerful family of Gutierrez Estrada, a family with com-mercial houses in Paris, Mexico, and Merida, and noted,among other things, for the beauty and intelligence of itswomen. A brother of the victim came over from Parisas an avenger, sought out the general in question, methim in a duel, and left this mark, which, at the time ofits infliction, brought the recipient to deaths door. The city of Mexico is some 7500 feet above the sea,and, having come up, we now followed a great downwardslope. It abounds in bold points