write:Among the officers of the army I found some very agreeable andall were very attentive to me. Liuts. Warner & Hammund theprincipal managers of affairs did themselves credit in th

both males and females their littlecigarritas a delicate cigar made with a very little tobacco rolled in acorn shuck or bit of paper. I had not been seated more than fieenminutes before Maj. Soards an officer
a man of quick perception
irony
sarcasm
and wit
came up to me in true Mexican style
andwith a polite
“Madam will you have a cigarita
” drew from onepocket a handfull of shucks and from an other a large horn oftobacco
at once turning the whole thing to a burlesque.Among the officers of the army I found some very agreeable
andall were very attentive to me. Liuts. Warner & Hammund
theprincipal managers of affairs did themselves credit in theirinterested and active movements to make the time pass agreeably totheir visitors.El Senor Vicario [the priest] was there to grace the gay halls withhis priestly robes—he is a man rather short of statu[r]e
but that ismade up in width
which not a little care for the stomach lends anassisting hand in completing the man. There was “Dona Tula” theprincipal monte-bank keeper in Sant Fé
a stately dame of a certainage
the possessor of a portion of that shrewd sense and fascinatingmanner necessary to allure the wayward
inexperienced youth tothe hall of final ruin. . . . There
too
circling giddily through thedance
Cpt. M[oore] of [First] Dragoons; if necessary we can be sureof at least one person to testify to the “virtues or vices” of what hasbeen graphically called “the ingredient.” There in that corner sits adarkeyed Senora with a human footstool; in other words with her2