The Life, Travels, and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy; Including His Journeys to Texas and Mexico, With a Sketch of Contemporary Events, and a Notice of the Revolution in Hayti Page: 71
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LIFE OF BENJAMIN LUNDY. 71
17th I took an excursion this forenoon to a village
called Puebla, a little to the north of Monclova. The
road thither is a public walk, and affords a most delightful
promenade. Cotton-wood trees are planted on
either side of the way; and seats are placed at convenient
distances, as in the public squares of Philadelphia.
In our ramble, we saw some orange trees, and many
pomegranate bushes.
The plant called maguey (or American aloe,) from
which the liquors called pulque and muscal are manufactured,
was also pointed out to me. This plant,
before running to seed, grows to the height of about
four or five feet; but the seed stalk rises to that of fifteen
or twenty feet. It takes the plant ten years to
come to perfection, so as to go to seed, at which period
a single one is valued at about ten dollars. W hen the
plant is about seeding, the top and a few of the upper
leaves are cut off. The stalk or stump is then hollowed
out like a mortar, and the sap flows into the hollow
from all parts of the plant, for a period of several days.
This sap is taken out daily, and fermented for use. The
fermented liquor, called pulque, is an excellent beer,
though somewhat intoxicating. The muscal, or maguey
brandy, is distilled from the pulque, by a process similar
to that of distilling apple whiskey with us; and it has
considerable resemblance to that liquor.
I saw, this afternoon, a two horse wagon of the most
approved form for a farm wagon, with bows, cover, &c.,
which was made in the United States. It had been
bought in Saltillo, (Mexico,) for three hundred dollars.
Such prices show that this country offers fine opportunities
for skilful workers in wood.
In the evening of this day, a religious procession
paraded from one of the churches round the principal
public square of MQnclova, the object of the procession
beingSb consecrate the proceedings of the great feast of
to-morrow.
18th. I went, at 11 A. M., to see the bull-fight.
The preparations consisted of a large and very strong
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Lundy, Benjamin. The Life, Travels, and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy; Including His Journeys to Texas and Mexico, With a Sketch of Contemporary Events, and a Notice of the Revolution in Hayti, book, 1847; Philadelphia. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33004/m1/69/?q=american+indian: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Star of the Republic Museum.