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ants and themselves were all at our command, and with a cordiality that 
forbad the idea of an arriire pens^e. 
Living in the country, at a distance from large towns, with but little 
literature and few and irregularly received newspapers, the hacendados 
and their administradors are glad to welcome the traveller as a guest to 
their doors. With ample means of accommodation and entertainment, 
they enjoy as well as confer a favor, and are as thankful for your visit, 
as you are to them for their repasts and attentions. You feel that the 
account is fairly balanced, and that the other little elegancies and assidui- 
ties which are thrown in for your comfort are the result of genuine hospi- 
tality, and the promptings of excellent hearts. They are no^le, liberal, 
generous gentlefolks ; and I hope again to travel in the Uerra caliente, 
and meet a few Senor Sylvas, Don Antonios, and Don Felipes. 
HOME. 
27lh Septemher. We left Ayotla at half-past two this morning, and 
arrived at the city gates just after sunrise, as the cannons were firing in 
honor of the day which is to he celebrated by the entombment of the re- 
mains of Santa Anna's leg that was shot off at the lattle of Vera Cruz in 
1838 ! 
The principal streets were covered with an awning ; the military came 
out in all their finery ; the chief functionaries of the Government united 
in the procession ; and thus, the limb of the President — cut off in 1838 — 
buried since then at Vera Cruz — disinterred and brought to the Capital in 
1842 — and now, laid in a crystal vase — was borne to the cemetery of 
Santa Paula, where it was deposited in a monument erected to receive 
it by the Commissary-general of the Mexican army ! 
A solemn eulogium (on the President — not the leg) was then pro- 
nounced by Senor Sierra y Rosa, and the ceremonies in honor of the 
precious relic were concluded. 
A caustic "Protest of the dead bodies of the cemetery against the recep- 
tion of the limb among them," — was soon afterward found on an adjacent 
tomb. 
