During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake..

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one canno….

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet..

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova..

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of thin….

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth..

Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last prese….

The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April….

Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and ….

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter ….

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile count….

Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he ….

Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valle….

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing..

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level..

There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe..

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish..

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however..