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industry of which is cattle raising. We 
passed a herd of about a thousand head 
just before reaching La Ascension, all in 
magnificent condition, and attended by 
some eight or ten vaqueros, who were 
driving them to market. With the usual 
Mexican politeness they took particular 
pains to give us the road ; and to do so 
drove the whole herd over a high hill, 
around the base of which the road ran. 
Just before reaching La Ascension we 
came to the Mormon colony of Diaz 
(named by them in honor of the pres¬ 
ent President of the Mexican Republic), 
numbering about fifty families. A dis¬ 
cussion of their religious tenets is clearly 
and fortunately out of my province, not 
only from its heavy, dreary character, but 
for the reason that everything wise and 
otherwise about Mormonism has already 
