1895 
Acapulco 
(Guerrero) 
ms a ridiculous performance to sec this much noted body of cavalry 
partly rolling on the ground and the rest of the troop broken into 
great confusion by such an obstacle. During one drill witnessed, the 
soldiers were given a rest in the middle of the exercises and the ever 
present women swarmed in among the man the moment the ranks were broken. 
Many of the so women carried clay jars and dishes with food and numbers 
of the men ate on the spot, The necessity for eating thus could not 
have been great as the drill only lasted for two hours in the last half 
of the p.a. and was held within 10 minutes walk of the barracks. This 
is a great peculiarity of these people, however, to eat at all hours 
and places. One sees it in travelling as sellers of cooked food swarm 
about the trains at a large proportion of the stations and find buyers 
constantly so that one sees eating going on from 
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rning until night 
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Many limes of a good, thin skinned quality are shipped to San Fran¬ 
cisco from this place. Living here is the family of a son of the old 
Californian Sutter of Setter’s Fort and early gold digging excitement. 
They are from a Mexican mother, but all talk English. 
i%ile walking through the bushes at the border cf town one day, I 
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ran across ‘the old cannons that ones fonried the defence of the fort* 
hut have teen thy ora aside her© as out of date and useless. 
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Back of town the hills rise in a high ridge to from 2500 to 3000 
feet and appear to be a broken r spur-like range extending out from the 
high mountains of the interior. 
The country in general is overgrown with thickets and low woods, 
nowhere becoming a heavy forest although many species of the humid 
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tropical gone occur, such as mahogany, logwood (Falo de Campeche) India 
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rubber, and others. The summer climate is damp and hot but the winters 
are hot and dry. At 2000 feet above town the climate is much cooler 
ana two small species of oaks that I have not seen elsewhere were common. 
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