l de Mexico, to the Moromuzo, kept by an American who had
been many years in the country, and where, though we paid even more for
rooms, we had some comfort. By industrious search, we found a Chinese
restaurant, where prices were not high and service quite as good as in
the aristocratic place where we had dined before. The day before we
called at the palace, hoping to see the governor, though it was Sunday.
He was out of town, and we were asked to call the following day.
Accordingly, in the afternoon, after returning from Progreso, I repeated
my call but was told that the governor had gone out of town again and
that I should come the following day. The third day, again presenting
myself at the office, I learned that it was a holiday and that the
governor would not be at the palace; the secretary recommended that I
try to see him at his house. To his house I went, and sending in my card
and my letters from the Federal authorities was surprised, after having
been kept waiting in the corridor, to be informed that the governor
would not see me, and that I should call at the palace, the next day, in
the afternoon, at two o'clock. Sending back a polite message that we had
waited three whole days to see his excellency, and that our time was
limited, my surprise was still greater at receiving the tart reply that
he had stated when he would see me. We spent the balance of day and all
the morning of the next, looking about the town.

Having failed in my visit to Governor Canton, I took a street-car to
Itzimna to see the bishop, to ask him for a letter to his clergy. The
well-known Bishop Ancona had lately died, and the new incumbent was
a young man from the interior of Mexico, who had been here but a few
months. He had been ill through the whole period of his residence, and
seemed frail and weak. He received me in the kindest way, and after
reading the letters I presented, asked whether I had not been in Puebla
at a certain time two years before; on my replying in the affirmative,
he remarked that he had met me at the palace of the bishop of Puebla and
had then learned of my work and studies. He gave me an excellent letter
to his clergy, and as I left, with much feeling, he urged me to be
careful of my health and that of my companions while we were in the
country. When he came from Puebla, only a few months before, he brought
three companions with him, all of whom had died of yellow fever. He told
me that, though this was not the