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the road about 9 miles out of the city of Mex. near Tlalpan but the travellers beat off their foes by a stout insistence with their fire arms. Although the country is in a state of safety & quiet as compared with its former condition yet there are robberies going on continually not a tenth of which ever get to the ears of the public even here in the vicinity of the occurrences.

The authorities are not communicative and only cases that are notorious from their boldness or other causes come to the notice of the public.

As most of the foreigners live in towns or when they travel go in a way that gives but little risk of molestation they are