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Show \ FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. 275 San Francisco. A maison is a large building with rooms, corrals and stabling where you can rent accommodations and sustain yourself, generally with stores of provisions kept by the proprietor to sell to travelers, connected. On arriving and taking rooms and stables, I went to the landlord and told him we had left our money at El Paso, to be expressed to us, and we wished him to credit us for a few days for such provisions and feed as we needed. He said, " No sir. I will not do that." I was " stumped" and did not know what to do as we had but a few dollars with us. Our outfit was first class and valuable, and we had not expected to be refused. While I was wondering in my mind what to do, the landlord stepped into a room and soon returned with a large, well- filled pocket book, and handed it to me say-ing, " There is money, take what you want, and when yours comes, you can return it. If I should sell you things on credit, you might think I took advantage of your circumstances and charge you more than if you had money. Take what money you want, look around and buy where you can do the best." I thought how very different from the average white man whether Gentile or Mormon. The landlord proved a true gentleman in every respect, giving us much useful information and treating us kindly during our stay. As soon as we got cleaned up and rested a little, we called upon the governor and presented the letter received from the Jefe Politico of El Paso. He received us kindly, saying that he had heard about us, and laughingly said he had heard of Padre Borajo's speech and hoped we were not so bad as the padre had represented us to be. Governor Ochoa was an intelligent, liberal- minded man and was much respected. His name is still held in |