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, and Fellow-Travellers of “CAMP FLAP-JACK” These pages are affectionately dedicated.
These pages contain the impressions of a casual traveller—a few letters 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, the fertility of soil, the luxuriance of tree and plant, the splendor and beauty of the cities, the intelligence and progressiveness of the people, the orderliness and beneficence of the governmental rule.
In Cuba I caught the newborn sentiment for liberty and order, and at the same time came curiously into touch with restive leaders, who even then boldly announced the intention to plot and wreck that liberty and order by sinister revolution, if their wild spirits should find no other way to seize and hold command.

If there shall be aught among these letters to interest the reader, I shall welcome another to the little circle for whose perusal they were originally penned.
William Seymour Edwards.
Charleston-Kanawha, West Virginia,