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SIX MONTHS IN MEXICO. 



cularly young men from Europe, cannot re- 

 main with safety even for a day. During the 

 short period I was in Mexico many who had 

 arrived in the vessels from Liverpool died. 

 One young man, named Lunn, who had mar- 

 ried but a few days before he left England, 

 anxious to place his wife in safety, imme- 

 diately on his arrival pushed forward to Xa- 

 lapa, where he left her, and returned to Vera 

 Cruz to arrange his affairs : in three days she 

 was a widow, in a strange land, without 

 knowledge of the language, and without being 

 known to a single person. Before the window 

 of the apartment I occupied at Xalapa were 

 exposed to the air the bedding and clothes of 

 a young American, lately the occupant of the 

 adjoining room. He had been taken ill at 

 Vera Cruz, left it immediately in a litter, but 

 arrived here only to die. Another youth 

 from Europe, who had fled the miserable 

 shore, died at Puebla just before our enter- 



