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MEXICO. 
FESTIVAL OF THE VIRGIN OF REMEDIOS. 
I WAS particularly tempted to witness the celebration of this festival, 
because it was strictly an Indian one, in which many of the old super- 
stitions of the tribes were mingled with the Catholic rites. 
The morning was beautiful, and, although there had been much rain 
the preceding night, the roads were dry and hard, and the whole face of 
nature looked sweet and clean. The road swarmed with people. The 
majority of these was of course composed of females, scarcely one of 
whom (from thirteen upward,) was without a baby strapped to her back j 
and all jogged along in that little trot which is peculiar to the movement 
of the Indians. 
INDIAN WOMEN AND INFANTS. 
