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Driests, in the different chapels, immediately commenced their masses for 
the repose of the hero's soul. At dark, his body was left with watchers 
around the pile on which it reposed, and, in a few days, it was deposited 
m an oaken sarcophagus and carried to a favorite hacienda for interment, 
TEZCOSINGO. 
IWi October. Another fine day. After breakfast we started on our 
promised expedition to the hill of Tezcosingo — which rises in a tall cone 
at the end of the eastern plain, jutting out for a mile or two from the wall 
of mountains. 
Tio Ignacio accompanied us on this occasion, and proved an excellent 
guide over the country; By his free, bold, dashing manners, and con- 
summate courage, he has managed to obtain a remarkable control over all 
the neighboring Indians, and appears to be a person likely to make him- 
self obeyed. He took an active part in the Revolution, and, as we rode 
from the town, pointed out to me the spot where, during a sudden night- 
attack of a guerilla party, he had been chased by a band of troopers from 
whom he was alone saved by the swiftness of his horse. It seems, however, 
that one of the cavalry, more daring than the rest, continued the pursuit 
after his companions had retreated ; — but he paid dearly for his rashness 
in the end. 
When Ignacio had cleared the streets and the suburbs of Tezcoco, he 
suddenlv turned on his follower, and striking off at right-angles, dexter. 
ously threw his lasso over the trooper. In a moment he had dismounted 
his pursuer ; — and putting his animal into full gallop, dragged the wretch 
for more than a mile over the plain, and cast his mangled body into a 
barranca \ 
THRO'WING THF LASSO. 
