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| LETTER THE FORTIETH. | |
| Balloon — San Bartolo — Indian women — A beauty — Different castes — Indians — Their character, &c. — Those of noble race — Ball at the French minister's — Abecilla — Danger of walking unattended — Shooting party — A murder — Robbery of a farm house — Discomfited robber captain — The "Zambos" — Letters and visiters — Country life in Mexico, | 153 |
| LETTER THE FORTY-FIRST. | |
| Gambling — Fête at San Agustin — Breakfast at San Antonio — Report — Cock-fight — Ladies — Private gambling — A vaca — The Calvario — Bonnets — Dinner — Evening ball — Mingling of classes — Copper tables — Dresses and decorations — Indian bankers, male and female — Decorum — Habit — Holders of banks — Female gambler — Robbery — Anecdote — Bet — Casa de Moneda — Leave San Angel — Celebration — Address — Cross and Diploma — Reply — Presentation of a sword — Discourses and addresses — Reflections, | 168 |
| LETTER THE FORTY-SECOND. | |
| Italian opera — Artists, male and female — Prima Donna — Lucia de Lammermoor — Some disappointment — Second representation — Improvement — Romeo and Giulietta — La Ricci — La Señora Cesari — The mint — False coining — Repetition of Lucia — Procession by night — A Spanish beauty — Discriminating audience — A little too simple — Gold embroidery — Santiago — Pilgrims — Old Indian custom — Soirée — Mexico by moonlight — Mysterious figure — Archbishop — Viceroy, | 190 |
| LETTER THE FORTY-THIRD. | |
| Revillagigedo — The false merchant and the lady — The Viceroy, the unjust Spaniard, the Indian, and the golden ounces — Horrible murder — Details — Oath — Country family — The spot of blood — The mother unknowingly denounces her son — Arrest of the three — Confession — Execution — The Viceroy fulfils his pledge — Paving of the streets — Severity to the monks — Solitary damsel — Box on the ear — Pension — Morning concert — NewMinister — "Street of the sad Indian" — Traditions — A farewell audience — Inscription on a tomb, | 203 |
