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....The next merging the Squadron marched in, the arms and powder Were received and placed in chargeof the Alcalde, to await the pleasure* of the General, and the soldiers informed that they were no longer soldiers, but citizens, subject t* tliecivil power, rt which they seemed hugely pleased.At Kara and San Fernando the people, and especially the women,’ wore very sh\. They peeped at us from the grated windows, hut ran like pnrtiidgcs at our approach. Here they tit at us with great kindness, and seem to feel no fear. The principal men seem all anxious that Coalmila should become part of the United States, and would at once pronounce their independence, ifthey did not fear that the United States would not provide for them in making a ticaty of peace.After sur\ vying the town, my firstcare was to lind a place where I could eat in comfort; and otter some search, I engaged as hostess a talkative old woman, one Dona Sonora Ponsceru Sanacs who contracted to feed me, rn csli/it McxL'ano, for a consideration, and here accordingly I quartered. Our horses, when we visited town, were led through the^ _ _ #« . —■p •dining room into a small apartment in the rear, tenanted by an asthmat-ic hog, hugely corpulent and unwieldy, fattened for the soap manufacture, and thence into the yard j behind, and wc and they soon bc-I came completely at home. Choco-• % ilate made with goats' milk, and ther a 1_____l • a i' i i
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Ottawa Free Trader
Ottawa, Illinois, US
Fri, Jan 15, 1847
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