CHAPTER VIII. 



WE remained another three weeks at Mazatlan, 



to see that affairs were thoroughly settled, 



during this time I made an expedition in the 



company of some friends, to a place called the 



"Presidio," a cotton factory some leagues 



distant from the town. We had a pretty drive 



of three hours to the factory, where we slept, 



and at daylight the next morning we started 



for a neighbouring marsh, where we made a 



good bag of ducks and snipe, besides a few 



quail and rabbits which we found in the scrub. 



After breakfast, a bath and siesta, we drove to 



a lagoon, celebrated for wild fowl, several miles 



farther on. When we reached this place we 



observed a very remarkable optical delusion. 



