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rejoicing among the poor half famished Mexicans as has never been seen before in this country. Men, women and children left everything and gathered on the banks – they bathed in it, the threw it into the air and screamed with delight and seemed [crazed?] with joy. I doubt whether the inhabitants of Memphis were more jubilant after the epidemic than were these simple Mexicans at the return of water to the bed of the river.

I rather like the Mexicans. They are more [?] [or?] [?] than [?], I think. It really is a disgrace to the people of the United states the way in which they treat them, especially the women. This country is filled with [desperados?] – men who have