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, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.
From Edward Burnett Tylor
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.
During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.
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 things in Mexico.
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 country below.
At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.
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 valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.
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 recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.
Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.
One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.
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