The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1899-01-07
IN MEXICO.
AT SEA OFF GUATEMALA,
9 A. NJ, Dec. Z, 1898.

EDITOR DISPATCH:
l visited Acapulco after all and was
very much interested in the place. The
old church was not much but is vener-
able, being built in 1772. The bells are
cracked and make a strange jingle in
stead OF the chimes they were intended
to produce. The interior is poor and
comparatively bare as it has been sack
ed so often by different pirates and rebel
chiefs that nothing OF value seemingly
remain. When you wish a cool drink
in Acapulco you buy a bottle Of A. B. c..
(pint) paying 35 cents for it, then you
carry it to the ice machine man who
alt cools it for 5 cents more when your
patience being exhausted you drink it
without waiting for it to cool, each hot
tie costs you by the time the cork comes
out "a cents in Mexican money.
l discovered a druggist who was edu-
Gated in San Francisco and spent a nice
afternoon with him. After doing the
town l went out to Ell Castillo del San
Diego, the fort which | mentioned in my
last letter. The Lieutenant in charge
showed me around it and l was very
much interested. The square or quad
rangle enclosed is without shade or
breeze and is ipdescribably hot, the
soldiers lying around in the sun drunk
asleep or quarreling woinen and child-
rem all in an indiscriminate crowd-dirty,
bleary and lousy 90. | showed my dis
gust | suppose, as the Lieutenant turned
out through the gate to the outer wall a
low parapet about so feet from the fort
itself and encircling it NJ well az the
deep moat which is at present dry. He
called a sentry and ordered chairs which
were placed under IA large fig tree at the
entrance anu with the eternal cigarette
cool punch and Il nice breeze we enjoyed
each Others company for two hours OF
more.
We played in the place two nights for
the "mozo's" and were kept supplied
the last time to our hearts content, the
American Council looked into our we'll
fare this time.
The ship left the prettiest harlor !
ever saw Wednesday A. NJ, and lett the
mail steamer at anchor. l received no
no mail on her AZ she left San Francisco
November %, 1898, 80 | guess New Years
will bring HE letters and papers. Today
has been n OF interest between whales
who threw themselves high in the air
clear of the water and volcanoes We have
been as Jerry" says. "sutiici. ntly
amused" all day. When it became dark
the Volcano gave us an exhibition that
WIS grand, a column OF fire that must
have been 900 feet high would shoot
up and the smoke glow with the re.
hected light until it seemed as if the
heavens were atire, then it would die
down, to be repeated in half an hour OF
SO, as long as VT were in seeiny distance,
We skirt the coast about 20 miles out
and when We crossed the Gulf of
Tehuantepec l Was sick again. Today
all day we are in sight OF the -Four
Mejices" as they are called. Four ex-
tinct volcanoes that tower over every
thing and are some ten or fifteen miles
apart along the coast. They are perfect
cones and must be 10000 feet hiph and
stand out clearly and distinctly looking
like four sentinels on guard in a COUNTRY
where rebellion aud revolution of dailv
occurrence. will finish and mail this ut
Corinto.
OFF CoR1NTo, U. S. S. PHiLApEIpuIA.
Sunday, December II, 1898.
send you some Mexican 5-cent
stamps, 9 for 10 cents like every hing
else IN that free silver country they are
deprecated in value. also enclose a
l0-cent bill, take it to Ed. Short and oct
a drink on me, don't tell him oavp a
I. S. bit for three OF them till Won o..t
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