CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. List of Maps and Figures xi
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1: Perspiring Walls and Incessant Insects - Environment and Education 11
6. Chapter 2: Strangling La Bahía - Supply Lines and Smuggling 33
7. Chapter 3: The Work Seldom Ceases - Duties and Defense 43
8. Chapter 4: A Poultice of Lion Fat Fomentations - Manpower and Medicine 67
9. Chapter 5: A Most Dangerous and Desirable Profession - Desertion and Death 83
10. Chapter 6: La Bahía Vice - Cockfighting and Card Playing 109
11. Chapter 7: How Best to Retrieve Stolen Horses - Diplomacy and Disobedience 127
12. Chapter 8: Suffocating Under Animal Skins - Insubordination and Incarceration 147
13. Chapter 9: Señora Treviño - Courtship and Conjugality 173
14. Epilogue 205
15. Acknowledgments 209
16. Notes 213
17. Index 272