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in charge by Mr. Newmark, soon reached La Buena Ventura, and 
entered the house that was to be my headquarters during my stay in the 
Trinidad River district. 
I had not seen my friend Harvey, the founder of this tropical 
enterprise, since we dined together at the Lotos Club in New York 
four years before. He was then yearning to shake the snows of the 
north from his feet and hasten back to the land where winter was 
unknown. I doubt if he believed that I would ever redeem my promise 
given then to visit him, and it was not for some time that I learned 
the cause for this skepticism. It seems that manv northerners come to 
the City of Mexico — some venture to Orizaba and points easy of access 
further south, but few get as far as Achotal. Only a short time pre- 
viously a well known New York lawyer arrived there at one in the 
morning, saw what he was “up against," boarded the train, and started 
back, though within ten miles of his destination. And that was why 
my host exclaimed, “By Jove, you are really here P 
