With this volume terminates the series in which Gustave Aimard has described the sad fate of the Count de Raousset-Boulbon, who fell a victim to Mexican treachery. In the next volume to be published, under the title of the "Trail Hunter," will be found the earlier history of some of the characters whose acquaintance the reader has formed, I trust with pleasure, in the present series.

L.W.

CONTENTS.

I.[THE INTERVIEW]
II.[THE MISSION]
III.[THE SPY]
IV.[THE EXPLOSION]
V.[THE FIRST POWDER BURNT]
VI.[REPRISALS]
VII.[GUETZALLI]
VIII.[THE ENVOY]
IX.[DOÑA ANGELA]
X.[THE AMBASSADORS]
XI.[THE PLAN OF THE CAMPAIGN]
XII.[FATHER AND DAUGHTER]
XIII.[LA MAGDALENA]
XIV.[THE COCK-FIGHT]
XV.[THE INTERVIEW]
XVI.[FATHER SERAPHIN]
XVII.[THE QUEBRADA DEL COYOTE]
XVIII.[THE SURPRISE]
XIX.[THE FORWARD MARCH]
XX.[BEFORE THE ATTACK]
XXI.[THE CAPTURE OF HERMOSILLO]
XXII.[AFTER THE VICTORY]
XXIII.[THE HACIENDA DEL MILAGRO]
XXIV.[THE BOAR AT BAY]
XXV.[THE BEGINNING OF THE END]
XXVI.[THE CATASTROPHE]

[CHAPTER I.]

THE INTERVIEW.

The Jesuits founded in Mexico missions round which, with the patience that constantly distinguished them, an unbounded charity, and a perseverance which nothing could discourage, they succeeded in collecting a large number of Indians, whom they instructed in the principal and most touching dogmas of their faith—whom they baptized, instructed, and induced to till the soil.

These missions, at first insignificant and a great distance apart, insensibly increased. The Indians, attracted by the gentle amenity of the good fathers, placed themselves under their protection; and there is no doubt that if the Jesuits, victims to the jealousy of the Spanish viceroys, had not been shamefully plundered and expelled from Mexico, they would have brought around them the majority of the fiercest Indios Bravos, have civilised them, and made them give up their nomadic life.