762 FINAL JOURNEYS AND WORK. [1885, 
I, to dine with Dr. Richardson (son-in-law of Short), 
where we met your and Dyer’s friends, Mr. and Mrs. 
Morris! of Jamaica, I was taken speechless. I was 
only for a few hours at the Exposition (I hate such), 
but Mrs. Gray went a second time to see Mexican 
things. Dr. Farlow, joining us at New Orleans, 
brought, to our surprise, passes for us to go by the 
Mexican Central Road to the city of Mexico and back 
to El Paso (the junction with the road to California), 
and we decided to undertake it. One day and a night 
took us to San Antonio, Texas, where we stayed Sat- 
urday, Sunday, and Monday, till evening, trying to 
recover from our colds, driving over the country 
through chaparral of mesquite bushes (Prosopis) 
and opuntias. When we awoke next morning we 
were coursing along the rocky banks of the Rio 
Grande del Norte, mounting into a high region more 
arid still, if possible, the only flowers out a Vesicaria ; 
and descending into a great cattle ranch region we 
reached El Paso at 3.30 a.M.; got to bed again; had 
the day there and on the other side of the river, at 
El Paso del Norte, in the Mexican State of Chihua- 
hua, whence at evening we took our Pullman for 
three nights and two days’ journey to this place, 
through Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Aguas-Caliente, Leon, 
ete., reaching here yesterday morning at 8.30. We 
are comfortably placed in the Hotel Iturbide. Farlow 
and I have looked about somewhat, though I am still 
suffering from eatarrh and cough; Mrs. Gray laid 
up with hers. This afternoon a Mexican gentleman 
to whom we took letters called and drove Farlow and 
me out to Chapultepec, whence a most magnificent 
view of the whole Valley of Mexico and the surround- 
? Daniel Morris, assistant director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. 
