CHAPTER XXXV.

Bull-fight at Guadalajara.--What Fools the Beasts are, and what Brutes the Men are.--La Comedia.--Antique Guide.--Execution of Robbers.--Tequilla.--Patron of the Meson and his Daughters.--Endurance of Mexican Soldiers.--Adaptability of Western Provinces for Military Operations.--La Nubarrada.--Horse Jockeying.--We are made Unhappy.--Bathing in Tepic.--Rio Grande and Santiago.--Shower of Water Melons.--Rio San Pedro.--Rosa Morada.--Acaponeta.--High Mass.--Tierra Caliente, and Old Tomas, the Poet.--We return to Mazatlan. 287

Don Guillermo and Senor Molinero.--The Olas Altas, and the gay scenes there enacted.--Thieves and Leperos.--How to learn Castilian.--Evacuation of Mazatlan by the U. S. Forces. 307