73 £264 
much if the wine would stand a long transport by land. I tried, at least, 
with a friend of mine, to take a sample of it to the States, but from some 
cause it had nearly all evaporated when we reached Saltillo. ‘The popu- 
lation of Parras is estimated at from 8 to 10,000, and with the surrounding 
settlements at nearly double that number. 
General. Wool arrived here last year, the citizens of Parras were 
very well treated, and formed a very favorable opinion of the Americans; 
but those friendly relations came near being interrupted ’at present by a fatal 
accident. One of our wagon drivers, a-very quiet man, had been assaulted 
by a Mexican loafer, and received several wounds, from the effect of which 
he afterwards died. As the prefect of Parras was not able to find out the 
guilty person, the friends of the wounded man took revenge on some Mexi- 
cans, and more disturbance would have grown out of it if we had stayed 
longer. “We rested in Parras two days, and left it on the morning of 
May 17, on our road to Saltillo. From Parras we mare about five | 
miles in.an eastern direction, through a plain, to or, as It is 
San Loren 
commonly called, Hacienda de abajo, a large, splendid hacienda, belong- 
i el de Ibarra) The road from el 
dechuguilla, and very large palmettos, a 
the crown. Some miles from our camp, in a corner, amidst mountains, 
which a 
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