Viewing page 64 of 101

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

[[Left Page]]
Querendaro
August

[[Right Page]]
at Querendaro for a few days & was hospitably taken care of by the agents of the R.R. at this place setting up my cot in the depot baggage room. 

Stopping here at this time was a young Mex. gentlemen who came here from the city of Mex. to see if he could not be benefitted by the air for his weak lungs.  He had a quick intelligence & had with him several scientific works which he was studying and had quite a good knowledge of the genera of plants.  

He was very liberal in his sentiments politically but was very bitter against the present government, speaking of Gen. Diaz as "that tiger."  He expressed great admiration for the Americans because they were educated & intelligent enough to govern themselves in a democratic way and considered it due to the character of the people who first colonized the country.  To the Spaniards he laid most of the failings of the Mex. people & their ignorance