Chapter II: Part II: Of Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, or the

JOURNAL OF A SANTA FÉ TRADER--1831-1839

Reprint of chapters xii-xvi of Volume I, and all of Volume
II of the second edition: New York, 1845

CONTENTS

CHAPTER XII

Government of New Mexico -- The Administration of Justice
-- Judicial Corruption -- Prejudices against Americans
-- Partiality for the English -- Anecdote of Governor
Armijo and a Trapper -- Outrage upon an American
Physician -- Violence suffered by the American Consul
and others -- Arbitrary Impositions upon Foreigners --
_Contribucion de Guerra_ -- The Alcaldes and their
System -- The _Fueros_ -- Mode of punishing Delinquents
and Criminals -- Mexican System of Slavery -- Thieves
and Thieveries Outrage upon an American Merchant --
Gambling and Gambling-houses -- Game of _Monte_ --
Anecdote of a Lady of Fashion -- _Chuza_ -- Cockpits --
_Correr el gallo_ -- _El Coleo_ -- Fandangoes --
_Cigarritos_, 21

CHAPTER XIII

Military Hierarchy of Mexico -- Religious Superstitions --
Legend of _Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe_ -- A profane
Version of the Story -- A curious Plan for manufacturing
Water -- Saints and Images -- Processions -- How to make
it Rain -- The Sacred Host -- Fanaticism and Murder --
Honors paid to a Bishop -- Servility to Priests --
Attendance at Public Worship -- New Mexicans in Church
-- The Vesper Bells -- Passion Week and the Ceremonies
pertaining thereto -- Ridiculous _Penitencia_ --
Whitewashing of Criminals -- Matrimonial Connexions and
Mode of Contracting them -- Restrictions upon Lovers --
Onerous Fees paid for Marriages and Burials -- Anecdote
of a _Ranchero_ -- Ditto of a Servant and of a Widow,
illustrative of Priestly Extortion -- Modes of Burial,
and Burial Ground of the Heretics, 37