He was President before Comonfort, and is now established with his Indian regiments in the hot pestilential regions of the Pacific coast.
The undisguised contempt with which the Indians have been treated for ages by the whites and the mestizos has not been without its effect.
The revolution, and the abolition of all legal distinctions of caste still left the Indians mere senseless unreasoning creatures in the eyes of the whiter races; and, if the original race once get the upper hand, it will go hard with the whites and their estates in these parts.

Only a day or two before we came down from Mexico, the government had endeavoured to quarter some troops in one of the little Indian towns which we passed through on our way from Temisco.

But the inhabitants saluted them with volleys of stones from the church-steeple and the house-tops, and they had to retreat most ignominiously into their old quarters among "reasonable people." I have put down our notions on the "Indian Question," just as they presented themselves to us at the time.

The dismal forebodings of the planters seem to have been fulfilled to some extent at least, for we heard, not long after our return to Europe, that the Indians had plundered and set fire to numbers of the haciendas of the south country, and that our friends the administradors of Cocoyotla had escaped with their lives.

The hacienda itself, if our information is correct, which I can hardly doubt, is now a blackened deserted ruin.
At supper appeared two more guests besides ourselves, apparently traders carrying goods to sell at the villages and haciendas on the road.