ON THE MEXICAN HIGHLANDS
With a Passing Glimpse of Cuba

BY
WILLIAM SEYMOUR EDWARDS
Author of “In To The Yukon,” “Through Scandinavia to Moscow,” etc.

CINCINNATI
PRESS OF JENNINGS AND GRAHAM

Copyright, 1906, by
William Seymour Edwards

THE SIX COMRADES OF CAMP FLAP-JACK—1881

To
Julius H. Seymour, Otto Ulrich von Schrader,Edmund Seymour, and Rudolph Matz,Companions, Comrades, andFellow-Travellers of
“CAMP FLAP-JACK”
These pages are affectionately dedicated.

FOREWORD

These pages contain the impressions of a casual traveller—a fewletters written to my friends.

Upon the temperate Highlands of Mexico, a mile and more above the sea,I was astonished and delighted at the salubrity of climate, thefertility of soil, the luxuriance of tree and plant, the splendor andbeauty of the cities, the intelligence and progressiveness of thepeople, the orderliness and beneficence of the governmental rule.

In Cuba I caught the newborn sentiment for liberty and order, and atthe same time came curiously into touch with restive leaders, who eventhen boldly announced the intention to plot and wreck that liberty andorder by sinister revolution, if their wild spirits should find noother way to seize and hold command.

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If there shall be aught among these letters to interest the reader, Ishall welcome another to the little circle for whose perusal they wereoriginally penned.

William Seymour Edwards.

Charleston-Kanawha, West Virginia,

November 1, 1906.

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