The Boy Travellers in Mexico Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Northern and Central Mexico, Campeachey, and Yucatan, With a Description of the Republics of Central America and of the Nicaragua Canal

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FROM SALTILLO TO JARAL.--A JOURNEY BY DILIGENCE.--PECULIARITIES OF DILIGENCE TRAVEL.--BRIGANDAGE; HOW THE GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSED IT.--ROBBERS TURNED INTO SOLDIERS.--STORIES OF BRIGANDS AND THEIR WORK; THEIR TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.--A CASE OF POLITENESS.--DINNER AT A WAY-SIDE INN.--CHILE CON CARNE.--DESCRIPTION OF CHIHUAHUA.--THE SANTA EULALIA MINES; ROMANTIC STORY OF THEIR DISCOVERY.--TORREON AND LERDO.--COTTON IN TRANSIT.--STATISTICS OF COTTON IN MEXICO.--FRESNILLO.-- CALERA.--A BAD BREAKFAST.--ARRIVAL AT ZACATECAS.--LODGED IN AN OLD CONVENT. 66