Huasteca Petroleum Company (Doheny Company). Mexican Eagle, /or what is known in Mexico as “Cid Mexicana de Petroleo, El Aguola” (English interests). La Corona, or what is known in Mexico as “N. V. Petroleum Maatschappij La Corona” (Royal Dutch Shell--Dutch Interest). Mexican Gulf Oil Co. (Mellon Bros., Pittsburgh). Island Oil Company (Leach & Co.). International Petroleum Company (John Hays Hammond). The Texas Company. Transcontinental Petroleum Company (owned by the Standard Oil Company--J. D. Rockefeller). SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 1921. _Tampico._ Spent ten hours on a small cabin launch going up the Panuco River and the Tamesi with which it junctions. At the ranch on Don Juan del Rio we stopped to bathe. It was very hot and very beautiful. We passed miles and miles of banana plantations and Indians in their frail overloaded “dugouts” who signalled to us to slow up for fear our “wash” would swamp them. Arm chairs and awnings were prepared for us, but with colored glasses to protect my eyes, I preferred sitting up in the ship’s bow all day in full glare of the sun. It beat down upon me, it burnt me, mercilessly, splendidly. I felt as if all the cold and fogs of England’s winters that had seemed so long, all the spring-times of England that had failed, all the summers of England that had been a disappointment, and all the autumns that had eaten damp into the marrow of my bones, were being burnt and branded and cauterized. MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1921. _Tampico._