1895 
Pachuca 
(Hidalgo) 
El Chico 
(Hidalgo) 
away he went to call hack the officials. After a time they returned 
and started down another road and soon the welcome sound of numerous 
salvas of guns and pistols at the border of the town announced his 
approach. The music struck up and then the procession came in view. 
On the step of the Governor*s carriage hung one enterprising courtier 
talking volubly to an invisible occupant while the carriage wheel de¬ 
liberately transferred a broad stripe of mud from the street to the 
coat of the hangeron*s best black suit of clothes. 
On the step of the Governors family carriage hung another person 
eager to express his joy at the general return. 
At the head of the procession now appeared the school children wav¬ 
ing paper banners and marshalled by the teachers,- and led off by the 
music. Behind tramped the new warm but undiscouraged band of high 
state officials whose clothing was beginning to show the effects of 
their tramp through the mud. Up the steep streets and round about 
town moved the procession and, at its return to the official building, 
the footworn officials had a littlo rest and took carriages for the 
three miles back to Pachuca where I am happy to say they arrived safely 
Tinder a heavy escort of cavalry that same afternoon, 
March 21st s Today I left Pachuca and, riding up over the summit 
of the mountains to the north of town, descended the remarkably steep 
north slope to the town which lies at nearly the same altitude as 
Pachuca and about 10 miles north on the opposite slope of the mountains 
A fine forest of firs, pines, and oaks occupy the north slope from 
summit to the town. A little below this the open country sweeps down 
several thousand feet to the bottom of a deep barranoa along which 
flows a small river. A broken and rolling plain extends far away to 
the N, UW, and HE from these mountains of Pachuoa which are an isolated 
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