"Those poor soldiers! we can't pay them, you know, and they must live somehow." I have abused the Mexicans for being thieves, and not without reason, though, as regards ourselves personally, we never lost anything except a great brand-new waterproof coat which my companion had brought with him, promising to himself that under its shelter he should bid defiance to the daily rain-storms of the wet season.

As we dismounted from the Diligence in Mexico, in the courtyard of the hotel, some one relieved him of it.

We did not know of the Baratillo in those days, or would have gone to look for it there.

At the time of our visit it was too late, for if it ever had been there, the Mexicans understand too well the value of an English "ulli," as they call them, to let it hang long for sale.

"Ulli" is not a borrowed word, but the genuine Aztec name for India-rubber, which was used to make playing-balls with, long before the time of Columbus.
I mentioned the water-bottles as part of our equipment.