BarbarousMexico JOHN KENNETH TURNER

CHAPTER III
OVER THE EXILE ROAD
Yaquis traveling to Yucatan, after arriving at the port
of Guaymas, Sonora, embark on a government war vessel
for the port of San Bias. After a journey of four
or five days they are disembarked and are driven by foot
over some of the roughest mountains in Mexico, from
San Bias to Tepic and from Tepic to San Marcos. As
the crow flies the distance is little more than one hundred
miles; as the road winds it is twice as far, and requires
from fifteen to twenty days to travel. "Bull pens,"
or concentration camps, are provided all along the route,
and stops are made at the principal cities. All families
are broken up on the way, the chief points at which this
is done being Guaymas, San Marcos, Guadalajara and
Mexico City. From San Marcos the unfortunates are
carried by train over the Mexican Central Railway to
Mexico City and from Mexico City over the International
Railway to Veracruz. Here they are bundled into
one of the freight steamers of the 'National" company,
and in from two to five days are disembarked at Progreso
and turned over to the waiting consignees.
On the road to Yucatan the companion of my journeys,
L. Gutierrez DeLara, and I, saw gangs of Yaqui
exiles, saw them in the "bull pen" in the midst of the
army barracks in Mexico City; finally we joined a party
of them at Veracruz and traveled with them on ship
from Veracruz to Progreso.
There were 104 of them shoved into the unclean hole
astern of the freight steamer Sinaloa, on which we embarked.
We thought it might be difficult to obtain the
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