A diplomat's wife in Mexico : letters from the American Embassy at Mexico City, covering the dramatic period between October 8th, 1913, and the breaking off of diplomatic relations on April 23rd, 1914, together with an account of the occupation of Vera Cruz . A DIPLOMATS WIFE IN MEXICO damage is a gauzy, diaphanous, rather large kind, andthe female of the species is deadlier than the male, On leaving, Lieutenant Courts took me for a littleturn about the harbor, as it was too early for the Suffolklunch. We went around the ill-famed prison of SanJuan Ulua. Its six desolate palms are almost the f
A diplomat's wife in Mexico : letters from the American Embassy at Mexico City, covering the dramatic period between October 8th, 1913, and the breaking off of diplomatic relations on April 23rd, 1914, together with an account of the occupation of Vera Cruz . A DIPLOMATS WIFE IN MEXICO damage is a gauzy, diaphanous, rather large kind, andthe female of the species is deadlier than the male, On leaving, Lieutenant Courts took me for a littleturn about the harbor, as it was too early for the Suffolklunch. We went around the ill-famed prison of SanJuan Ulua. Its six desolate palms are almost the firstthing one sees on entering the harbor. I regret that Idid not get a pass from General Maass to visit it. Isaw a few pale, hopeless-looking prisoners in dull blueand white stripes, standing on the parapets or work-ing in the dry dock, the guns of soldiers always pokingin their faces. These are the better class of criminals;there are those in dark, oozing, terrible holes who arenever allowed outside of them, and it is said that thosewho survive lose in a few years all human foundations of the fortress were laid in early Cortesdays and the fortunes and misfortunes of the town havealways centered round it. It was from its tower that thel
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