Wanderings in Mexico; the spirited chronicle of adventure in Mexican highways and byways . and there join a young Southern mining man,who after visiting his home was about to return to thefamous mine La Candelaria, in San Dimas, Durango —about a days ride from my destination. My friend also advised me as to my outfit, which in-cluded a khaki riding-suit, a pair of high laced boots,a pair of wading-boots, heavy and thin underwear, sev-eral suits of overalls, woolen gloves, army blankets, acloth cap, a rifle, a revolver, fishing-rod and flies, anda medicine-kit. All these I secured and the cloth
Wanderings in Mexico; the spirited chronicle of adventure in Mexican highways and byways . and there join a young Southern mining man,who after visiting his home was about to return to thefamous mine La Candelaria, in San Dimas, Durango —about a days ride from my destination. My friend also advised me as to my outfit, which in-cluded a khaki riding-suit, a pair of high laced boots,a pair of wading-boots, heavy and thin underwear, sev-eral suits of overalls, woolen gloves, army blankets, acloth cap, a rifle, a revolver, fishing-rod and flies, anda medicine-kit. All these I secured and the clothing andblankets I packed in a pair of horse-hide trunks, weigh-ing about 150 pounds each. These proved usefulthroughout my journeys in Mexico, making a fair loadfor a pack-animal, and being easily adjusted and nothard on a mules back. A well-chosen if abbreviatedlibrary of favorite authors, while it added to the rail-road charge for excess baggage, proved an inestimablesolace, not only during the year I passed in the isolatedmining region, but throughout my five years stay Mexican mozo THE MAN WHO LIKES MEXICO 7 I found my traveling companion an alert, able andkindly young Southerner, and after a few days delight-ful hospitality in both Tennessee and Georgia, where hehad numerous farewell visits to make and where he in-sisted on my accompanying him, we proceeded zia NewOrleans to Eagle Pass, crossed the Rio Grande to CiudadPorfirio Diaz, and went from there by rail across thenorthern State of Coahuila and a strip of Zacatecas tothe junction city of Torreon, and thence to Durango,a fine city of about 32,000 inhabitants, the capital of thestate of the same name, and situated at the foot of theeastern slope of the Sierra Madre. There were numbers of English-speaking men on thetrain, several being Americans, all of whom were re-turning to the mines. The concensus of opinion seemedto be that Mexicans did not like Americans, and mycompanion, whom I now addressed, at his
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