Contents. 



CHAPTER IX. 



Origin of the City of Mexico — The Alameda — The Paseo Nuevo— A 

 Mexican gentleman on horseback — Promenade de la Viga — The float- 

 ing islands — Theatres — Place d'x\rmes — The Cathedral — The Sangra- 

 rio — Disputacion Iturbide — Aqueducts — The National Museum — The 

 Sanctuario de Guadalupe — Its wonderful origin — The Creole Virgin — 

 Chapultepec — Humming-birds — Mexican houses and life — Mexican 

 ladies — The Indians — A Ranchero — Mexican market. . Page 135 



CHAPTER X. 



Marshal Bazaine — Madame la Mar^chale — Princess Iturbide — Tacubaya — 

 San Augustin — A projected important mission — How it ended — We 

 go on an expedition — Meeting the enemy — Result — Arrival in Tulan- 

 cingo- — Order to evacuate — Jimmy — Carabajal, the robber-general — 

 March to Puebla — Meeting the Emperor Maximilian — The ' woman 

 in white ' — I fall ill — General panic — Returning to Mexico — The 

 family Hube — Departure of the French — The Emperor leaving for 

 Queretaro — Salm going after him — I am left behind — General Mar- 

 quez — General Vidaurri— Good news — The battle of San Lorenzo — 

 Marquez a coward — Porlirio Diaz before Mexico. , . . 157 



CHAPTER XI. 



Fearful dreams — My escaj^e from Tacubaya — Going to Mexico — Colonel 

 Leon — My propositions to the German Colonels — Negotiations — 

 Madame Baz — A sad mistake rewarded by a bullet — At the head- 

 quarters of Porfirio Diaz — Mr. Hube my interpreter — Return to 

 Mexico — Two volleys fired at me — No harm done — A thunderstorm 

 as a peace-maker — Baron Magnus retains me in Mexico — What re- 

 sulted from it — Confusion in Tacubaya — A kind invitation to go to 

 ■ Tericho, or elsewhere beyond the sea — Will not go — Female general- 

 ship against Mexican strategy — General Baz — Permission to go to 

 Escobedo — Thirty-seven letters of recommendation — My journey to 

 Queretaro — Mexican justice. . . . . . . .174 



CHAPTER XIL 



Arrival before Queretaro — Visit to Escobedo's head-quarters — One who 

 had 'known me intimately' — ^Journey to San Luis Potosi — Lieut. - 

 Colonel Aspirez — An audience with President Juarez — M. Iglesia — 

 The fall of Queretaro — The Emperor and my husband prisoners — 

 Journey to Queretaro — San Teresita — My first interview with the 

 Emperor — His prison — I arrange a meeting between the Emperor and 



