MEXICAN MULETEERS
SIR,—Having spent many happy days in company with the engaging confraternity of Mexican muleteers, I write to protest against Mr. Harold Nicolson's comparison of the cries with which they "urge their mule trains through the defiles of Ixtaccihuatl" with the savage ravings of Goebbels and his crew. In the course of various mountain excursions in which I was guided by a wide variety of arrieros, I have never heard a note of savagery or brutality creep into the Anda-le or the more physiological expletives with which they Urged on their beasts. To com- pare them, even in the matter of "wild cries" with the Hitler gang is a grave injustice which I am sure Mr: Nicolson did not intend to a profession which habitually displays remarkable qualities of kindliness and good humour in conditions of coosiderable hardship. Perhaps some publisher will redress the balance by publishing a translation of Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes novel Arrieros, which pays so well deserved a tribute
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