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| LETTER THE FORTY-SEVENTH. | |
| Opera — Santa Anna and his suite — His appearance — Belisario — Solitary "viva!" — Brilliant house — Military dictatorship — San Juan de Dios — Hospital de Jesus — Cuna — Old woman and baby — Different apartments — Acordada — Junta — Female prisoners — Chief crime — Travaux forcés — Children — Male prisoners — Forçats — Soldiers gambling — Chapel — Confessional — Insane hospital — Frenchmen — Different kinds of insanity — Kitchen — Dinner — Insane monk — "Black chamber" — Soldiers — College — Santa Anna's leg — Projects — All Saints — Señora Pa — Leave-takings, | 272 |
| LETTER THE FORTY-EIGHTH. | |
| Leave Mexico — Diligence — Indian padre — Brandy-drinking female — Bad roads — Beautiful view — Escort — Good breakfast — Crosses — Robber's head — Select party — Lerma — Valley of Toluca — Hacienda — Toluca — Count de B and Mr. W The comandante — Gay supper — Colonel Y Day at Toluca — Journey to La Gabia — Heat and hunger — Pleasant quarters — Princely estate — El Pilar — A zorillo — A wolf — Long journey — Tortillas — Count de B State of Michoacan — Forest scenery — Trojes of Angangueo — Comfort | 300 |
| LETTER THE FORTY-NINTH. | |
| Leave Trojes — Beautiful territory — Tarrascan Indians — Taximaroa — Distressed condition — An improvement — Cold morning — Querendaro — Fine breed of horses — San Bartolo — Produce — Country proprietors — Colear — Ride to Morelia — Wild ducks — Sunset — Cathedral bell — Cuincho — Curates Morelos, Matamoros and Hidalgo — Warm baths — Handsome girls — Starving travellers — Lost mules — Lancers — Night on a heap of straw — Mules fotmd — Tzintzontzan — King Calsonsi — Pascuaro — Kind reception — Bishop — Robbers — Curu — Night in a barn — Mountain — Uruapa — Enchanting scenery — Pleasant family — Jorullo, | 317 |
