CONTENTS OF VOLUME XX

Commerce of the Prairies; or, The Journal of a Santa Fé Trader, during Eight Expeditions across the Great Western Prairies, and a Residence of nearly Nine Years in Northern Mexico. (Part II: Chapters xii-xvi of Volume I, and all of Volume II of original.) Josiah Gregg.
[Author's Table of Contents]13
[Text of Part II]:21

ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME XX

"[Indian Alarm on the Cimarron River]"Frontispiece
"[Map of the Interior of Northern Mexico]"Facing21
[Medal of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Mexico] (text cut)40
"[Camp Comanche]"123
[Mule emerging from a mine;][Still Hunting] (text cuts in original)181
"'[Dog Town],' or Settlement of Prairie Dogs"279

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 galloEl Coleo — Fandangoes — Cigarritos,21

[CHAPTER XIII]