PREFACE. 
This book records in a popular way 
the adventures, researches, and other 
doings of two expeditions sent into 
Northern Mexico in the years 1889 and 
1890, the patron of the first being 
America and of the other The Herald, 
both Chicago publications. The story is 
told, however, as if it were a continuous 
undertaking, to make it more succinct and 
interesting; the public probably being 
uninterested in the business details, which 
did not vary from the usual details of 
that nature. 
In this light the Mexican expedition 
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