A Buffalo Hunt in Northern Mexico. 



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ON THE ROAD. 



was in his tastes a streak of savagery, and to indulge it he wandered 

 out so far in the desert and built this fortalice. Then he brought 

 pictures, books, wines, guns, dogs, horses ; friends followed in swarms, 

 his hospitality was semi-regal ; when his guests palled of feasting, 

 drinking, gambling, and hunting deer and wolves, not seldom he 

 led them in long pursuit of the Comanche, or Lipan, or Apache, 

 all quite as untamable as wolves. The Lagunieros were of his 

 tenantry — fierce, idle, independent republicans, upon whom not even 

 the French could make an impression, though they plied them with 

 fire and sword. One day, they came up and demanded that he rent 

 them certain lands upon their terms. He refused ; war ensued, and 

 regular battles. Zuloaga was driven off, and finally died of sheer 



