CHAPTER VII. CUERNAVACA. TEMISCO. XOCHICALCO.

[Illustration: ] — SPANISH-MEXICAN BIT, with its ring and chains. Length 9 inches, width 5½ inches.

The distance from Mexico to Vera Cruz is about two hundred and fifty miles, and what the roads are I have in some measure described. Rafael Beraza, the courier of the English Mission at Mexico, used to ride this with despatches regularly once a month in forty hours,

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