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Show JOUlU\AL OF A VO\ AGE to the camp, and begged of n1e to take him back to hi~ company, but I would not gi vc any encouragcm nt to the scoundrel, only a little change, as he was without a farthing. 20tb May, vVcdncsday.-Came to the Ilacienda of Pattos by nine o'clock. This is a handsome place, where the marquis De San Miqucl frequently spends his sumIners, the di stance enabling him to come from Mexico in his coach in ten days. llcrc we n1ct the Mexican postrider going to Chewawa. l)on Ilymic who had left us at P aras, joined in a coach and six, in which we came out to a little settlement called the F lori(la, one league from Pattos, due north. Distance 18 n1ile ', , T he I! acicnda of Pattos was a square enclosure ot about three hundred feet, the building being one sto1 y high, but some of the apartments very elegantly furnished. In the centre of the square was a J<'t J'cau, which cast forth water from eight spouts, c. ·tend 'd from a coloscan female form. ·F'rom this fou ntain all the neighbouring inhabitants got their supply of water. T he marquis had likewise a very handsome church, which, with its orna·. n1ents cost hin1 at least 20,000 dollars ; to officiate in which, he maintained a little stiff superstitious priest. In the rear of the palace (for so it might be called) was a fish-pond, in which were immense numbers of fine fish. The population of Florida is about 2,000 souls. T his was our nearest point to the city of Mexico. 21st May, Thursday.-Niarched down the water ourse over a rough and stony road about ten miles, when -we left it on the right, and came on eight miles further to a horse range of the marquis's, where he had four of his soldiers as a guarda caballo. llalted at half past nine o' clock. 1-\t this place we had a spring of bad water. THROUGH THE. JNTEHIOR PHOVINCl'.:S, & c. 2~7 22d May,Friday.-Marched at three o'clock and came on 16 miles to a small shed, and in the afternoon to Ia Rancho, eight miles to the left of the main road near the foot of the mountain, where was a pond of water but no houses. Some Spanish soldiers were here. We left Pattos mountain on our left and right, but here there was a cross mountain over which we were to pass in the morning. The n1arquis maintains 1 SOO troops to protect his vassals and property fron1 the savages. They arc all cavalry, and as well dressed and arn1ed as the king's, but are treated by the king's troops as if vastly inferior . 23d May, Saturday.-Marched early and came to a spring in the mountain. 24tb May, Sunday.-Marched at an early hour and passed through the mountain, (scarcely any road,) called the mountain of the Three Rivers. At the 1 ~3th mile joined the main road which we had left to our right on the 22d instant, and in one hour after, came to the main Mexican road from the eastern provinces ; from thence north-west to the Rancho, nine n1iles from Montclovez ' whence the captain sent in an express to give notice of our approach. '25th May, Monday.-In the afternoon lieutenant Adams, cmnmandant of the company of Montelovcz arriv~ d in a coach and six to escort us to town, where we arnv~d about five o'clock, P. M. In the evening visited ca~tam De. F erara, the comn1andant of the troops of CogqUJlla, and Inspector of the five provinces. Lieutenant Adams who commanded this place, was the son of an Iri 'h engineer in the service of Spain. He ~ad marrie.d a rich girl of the Passo Del Norte, and they hvcd h:re 1n elegance and style for the country. W c put Hp at h1s quarters and were very hospitably entertained. Kk |