Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report on Hidalgo Plantations and Impressions of La Zacualpa Rubber Plantation
On June 8th I left Mexico City for Cor doba, where I changed train the following day, traveling southward on the Vera Cruz and Pacific Railroad. There was no Pull man service, the road was in a very bad condition on account of the recent heavy rainfalls, so that it created no wonderamong the passengers when the first part of the train suddenly rolled over the bank.
After a delay of twenty-four hours we again steamed on, and arrived in Santa Lucrecia late in the evening of the 10th. Food and sleep were very welcome after the privations of the road. At noon the next day I took the train for San Geronimo, on the Tehuantepec railroad, but not even on this comparatively good road did we get through without an accident, which took nine hours to repair. In the early morning of the 14th, I left San Geronimo bound for Tonala, the present terminus of the Pan American railroad, but about 122 km. From the former place, part of the train was again derailed, and the next twenty - two hours had to be spent as pleasantly as possible under the circumstances. Late in the after noon of June 15th we arrived in Tonala, and half an hour later I was in the saddle, riding towards La Zacualpa. On the 18th of June, I reached the plantation, where I was welcomed by the manager and Mrs.
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