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Rh And this is exactly what American and European capital and organization have brought to Tampico, attracted by its underground wealth, and this is what will ultimately redeem Mexico and forward her people by industrial opportunity.

Nowhere in the tropics can one make a more interesting trip than to take a swift launch or a lazy stern-wheel barge and at daybreak stir the flying-fish and the jungle parrots of the Chijol Canal, pass on through shallow Tamiahua Lake, where the waterfowls before their migration may be seen spread out in all directions for twenty miles, note the electric light of the oil pumping stations, contrasting with the distant dark mountain peaks, and glimpse through the jungle the cleared hillside fields where the British oil interests, represented by Lord Cowdray, have planted the mark of English thoroughness in field and building construction.

The water trip now terminates sixty miles south at San Geronimo, but later may reach Tuxpan, forty miles beyond. Here at a small inlet dividing the British and American developments you mount motor handcars and fly like