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say "I will see you again tomorrow" - mentioning the hour - and when tomorrow came they had forgotten all about it & were probably making similar engagements elsewhere.

Emilio Castalear in his article upon Columbus in the Century for Aug. '92 gives an apt characterization of this mental trait in the Spaniards that it is worth repetition in this connection.  He remarks that the Spaniards are an impulsive people who jump at hasty conclusions from a statement of the first principles & that if one thinks of doing a thing his mind at once leaps from its inception to the finish and he sees it mentally as already done - impatient [[strikethrough]] of the [[/strikethrough]] & often utterly ignoring the frequently laborious means for its accomplishment

From Morelia the R.R. goes on gradually ascending among green hills until it reaches its terminus