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VAGABOND LIFE

IN

MEXICO.

BY

GABRIEL FERRY,

FOR SEVEN YEARS RESIDENT IN THAT COUNTRY.


NEW YORK.

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1856.




CONTENTS.

                                                    PAGE
PERICO, THE MEXICAN VAGABOND                           5

FRAY SERAPIO, THE FRANCISCAN MONK                     47

DON TADEO CRISTOBAL, THE THIEVES' LAWYER OF MEXICO    90

REMIGIO VASQUEZ                                      128

THE MINERS OF RAYAS                                  177

CAPTAIN DON BLAS AND THE SILVER CONVOY               217

THE JAROCHOS                                         277

THE PILOT VENTURA                                    314




VAGABOND LIFE IN MEXICO.




Perico, the Mexican Vagabond.




CHAPTER I.

The Jamaïca and Mount Parnassus.


Mexico is the most beautiful city ever built by the Spaniards in the New
World; and even in Europe it would take a high place for splendor and
magnificence. If you wish to behold the magnificent and varied panorama
which Mexico presents, you have only to mount at sunset one of the
towers of the Cathedral. On whatever side you turn your eye, you see
before you the serrated peaks of the Cordilleras, forming a gigantic
azure belt of about sixty leagues in circumference. To the south, the
two volcanoes which overtop the other peaks of the sierra raise their
majestic summits, covered with eternal snow, which, in the evening sun,
put on a pale purple hue fle