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A decree condemning to death all traitors and reactionaries had been passed, and on March 23 it was officially communicated to the allies. On March 26 General de Lorencez joined the admiral at Tehuacan, and the latter pushed on to Orizaba, where the allies were to hold a final conference on April 9.
This was a vast South American state which had started into political existence as an empire and had shaken off its emperor sent him home to Europe and had set up as a republic of a somewhat aggressive order. 'Yes, Orizaba, of course. 'But do you really believe, Captain Sarrasin, that Orizaba has any actual intentions of that kind?
The descent from the high elevation of Orizaba is continued, the route leading through groves of bananas, maize and sugar plantations, and creeping down the steep sides of a terrific gorge over a thousand feet deep, where the purple shadows look like shrouded phantoms hastening out of sight.
My heart was light within me as I stood on the steamer's deck in the cool gray of an October morning and saw out across the dark green sea and the dusky, brownish stretch of coast country the snow-crowned peak of Orizaba glinting in the first rays of the rising sun.
Orizaba gradually faded from sight, Billie turned to the others and in a voice tinged with sadness remarked: "There's only one thing about the whole country that I admire." "What's, that?" asked Adrian. "Lucia?" "No; it's the wholesome respect the Mexicans show for Brigadier-General Funston." "Yes, and if he is let alone, he'll make them respect the American flag," echoed Donald.
While on board the Susquehanna, on the 1st day of December, 1866, we received the proclamation made by the Emperor Maximilian at Orizaba, in which, notwithstanding the near withdrawal of the French troops, he declared his purpose to remain and "shed the last drop of his blood in defense of his dear country."
The lady was willing was more than willing; "for when the fires of Spanish love are kindled, they burn unextinguishably," says the proverb. Or, in the poetical language of the Indians, "it burns as did the fires of Mount Orizaba in its youth fires that only went out when its head was coated with silver gray."
He perfectly astonished our representatives in Orizaba and in Gloria by the fulness and the accuracy of his local knowledge. His answers in the House of Commons were models of condensed and clear information. He might, for aught that anyone could tell to the contrary, have lived half his life in Gloria and the other half in Orizaba.
At the bottom of the crater, which is nearly flat, are several conical vents, whence are continually issuing vapours of variable colour, red, yellow, or white. The beds of sulphur deposited in this crater are worked for economical purposes. Two snowy peaks tower above its walls. Not less magnificent in its proportions is the volcano of Orizaba, which is nearly of the same height as Popocatepetl.
There is said to be no very great difficulty to overcome in climbing to the top if one has experience in such work and is at the same time strong and well, but the party referred to had just arrived from the level of the sea. The summit of Orizaba is, as we have stated, considerably over seventeen thousand feet above the port of Vera Cruz.
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