Narrative of the Texan Santa F Expedition Comprising a Description of a Tour
Narrative of the Texan Santa F Expedition Comprising a Description of a Tour
George W George Wilkins Kendall
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The prices are moderate, however, especially away from the larger cities. A dish of frijoles, or of guisado, with a stack of some half dozen tortillas to match, seldom costs more than six or nine cents ; and as upon these the traveller is generally obliged to subsist, his expenses are light. With a dol- lar and twenty-five cents or thereabout per diem, I N2 150 HOW TO MAKE TORTILLAS. Should suppose a man could pay his own expenses and those of his beast on the principal routes of the country, a...nd live through it, unless some of los senores ladrones should see fit to stop his breath for the mere love of whatever plunder might be got from him. Should the traveller happen to be at a village where there is no meson, it is considered the duty of the al- calde to furnish him with accommodations ; but if night overtakes him at a poor rancho, where there is no al- calde, his situation is truly deplorable. He alights at the door of the best-appearing hut in the group, and after kicking and quieting some half dozen yelping, worthless curs, which seem inclined to dispute his pas- sage by threats only they never go so far as to bite he at length effects an entrance.
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