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 Visiters — Virgin de los Remedios — Encarnacion — Fears of the nuns — Santa Teresa — Rainy season — Amusing scene — "Está a la disposicion de V." — Mexican sincerity — Texian vessels — Fine hair — School mistress — Climate — Its effects — Nerves — Tours de force — Anniversary — Speech — Paseo — San Angel — Tacubaya — Army of "the three guarantees" — Plan of Yguala — A murder — Indian politeness — Drunkenness — Señor Canedo — Revolutions in Mexico — The Peñon — The baths — General Situation and view — Indian family — Of the boiling springs — Capabilities — Solitude — Chapultepec — The Desagravios — Penitence at San Francisco — Discipline of the men — Discourse of the monk — Darkness and horrors — Salmagundi.

August 30th.

the political world nothing very interesting-has occurred, and as yet there is no change of ministry. Yesterday morning, Cn set off in a coach and six for the valley of Toluca, about eighteen leagues from Mexico, with a rich Spaniard, Señor Mr y Tn, who has a large hacienda there.

Last Sunday morning, being the first Sunday since the revolution, we had forty visiters — ladies and gentlemen, English, French, Spanish and Mexican. Such varieties of dresses and languages I have seldom seen united in one room; and so many anecdotes connected with the pronunciamiento as were related, some grave, some ludicrous, that would form