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 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.

Toluca, 16th.

vain would be a description with the hopes of bringing them before you, of our last few days in Mexico! Of the confusion, the bustle, the visits, the paying of bills, the packing of trunks, the sending off of heavy luggage to Vera Cruz, and extracting the necessary articles for our journey; especially yesterday, when we were surrounded by visiters and cargadores, from half past seven in the morning, till half past eleven at night. Our very last visiters were the families of Ca and En. The new President, on dit is turning his sword into a ploughshare. Preferring a country to a city life, nearly every Sunday he names the house in which he desires to be fêted the following week — now at the villa of Señor at Tacubaya — now at the hacienda of Señor  at San Agustin. As yet the diplomatic corps do not