CHAPTER V. 
Trip from Chihuahua to Aguascalientes, in ee aceaean 
Trade and Ferias—Hacienda de Ja Zarca, and its innumera- 
Nazas, a a nia 
‘hurches—City of Durango and its Peculiarities—Persecu- 
on of Scorpions Negros ip in the ascendant—Robbers and 
heir modus operandi—City of Aguascalientes Bathing Se ene 
—Haste to return to the North—Mexican Mule-shoeing—Dif- 
a 
Ace 
cale, Fortifications, or of the City of emi tine 3 by 
Santa Anna and his easy-won = ctory— ango 
Civil Warfare among the ‘ Sovereigns 1 Hair-breadth nent 
—Troubles of the Road—Safe ‘hrtinad at Chihuahua—Charac- 
ter of the Southern Country. 
Tue patient reader who may have accom: 
panied me thus far, without murmuring a 
the dryness of some of the details, will per- 
haps pardon me for presenting here a brief 
account of a trip which I made to Aguasca- 
lentes, in the interior of Northern Mexico, in 
the year ‘1835, and which the arrangement I 
have adopted has prevented me from intro- 
ducing before, in its chronological order. 
The trade to the South constitutes a very 
important branch of the commerce of the 
country, in which foreigners, as well as na- 
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