Barbarous Mexico . for-eigner. He had no notion of exposing the officials andcitizens whose names he mentioned. He expressed noobjection whatever to the system, rather gloried in it. In the past six months, the fat colonel told me, Ihave handled three thousand Yaquis—five hundred amonth. Thats the capacity of the government boatsbetween Guaymas and San Bias, but I hope to see it in-creased before the end of the year. I have just beengiven orders to hurry 1,500 more to Yucatan as quicklyas I can get them there. Ah, yes, I ought to have a com-fortable little fortune for myself before this thing
Barbarous Mexico . for-eigner. He had no notion of exposing the officials andcitizens whose names he mentioned. He expressed noobjection whatever to the system, rather gloried in it. In the past six months, the fat colonel told me, Ihave handled three thousand Yaquis—five hundred amonth. Thats the capacity of the government boatsbetween Guaymas and San Bias, but I hope to see it in-creased before the end of the year. I have just beengiven orders to hurry 1,500 more to Yucatan as quicklyas I can get them there. Ah, yes, I ought to have a com-fortable little fortune for myself before this thing isover, for there are at least 100,000 more Yaquis to come! One hundred thousand more to come! he repeatedat my exclamation. Yes, one hundred thousand, ifone. Of course, theyre not all really Yaquis, but— And President Diazs chief deporter of Sonora work-ing-people lolling there upon the deck of the freightsteamer passed me a smile which was illuminating, ex-ceedingly illuminating—^yes, terribly illuminating!. CHAPTER III OVER tup: kxile road Yaquis traveling to Yucatan, after arriving at the portof Guaymas, Sonora, embark on a government war ves-sel for the port of San Bias. After a journey of fouror five days they are disembarked and are driven by footover some of the roughest mountains in Alexico, fromSan Bias to Tepic and from Tepic to San IMarcos. Asthe crow flies the distance is little more than one hun-dred miles; as the road winds it is twice as far, and re-quires from fifteen to twenty days to travel. Bull pens,or concentration camps, are provided all along the route,and stops are made at the principal cities. All familiesare broken up on the way, the chief points at which thisis done being Guaymas, San Marcos, Guadalajara andMexico City. From San Marcos the unfortunates arecarried by train over the Mexican Central Railway toMexico City and from Mexico City over the Interna-tional Railway to Veracruz. Here they are bundled intoone of the freight steamers of the N
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