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Page 6 scene of that bloody ??? of last July - and yet these most Christian(underlined) rebels are ready to die with grief at the execution of a foreign prince in Mexico! O shame where is thy blush? I am delighted with the climate and the foliage & flowers present a luxuriance & beauty which exceeds all my imaginings - I have never seen the orange laden with fruit & flowers The banana - with its lucious[sic] burden. The fig tree with delicious ripe fruit the pomegranate with scarlet bell shaped fruit. The flowering Jessamine, ???? rare?? & snowy white & many more the names of which I cannot now recall. We are surrounded by all these trees & a fine garden