The Boy Travellers in Mexico Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Northern and Central Mexico, Campeachey, and Yucatan, With a Description of the Republics of Central America and of the Nicaragua Canal

CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE REPUBLICS COMPOSING IT; A SKETCH OF THEIR HISTORY; AREA AND POPULATION.--SNAKES, LIZARDS, AND OTHER CREEPING THINGS.--COSTA RICA AND ITS REVOLUTIONS.--A...

HOTELS ON THE FRONTIER.--ACCOMMODATIONS AT LAREDO.--SMUGGLING OVER THE BORDER.--LAREDO AS A RAILWAY CENTRE.--THE RIO GRANDE AND ITS PECULIARITIES.--RIVERS BENEATH THE SANDS.--EN...

EXCURSION TO TULA.--AN ANCIENT CITY OF THE TOLTECS.--CHURCH OF THE TIME OF CORTEZ.--MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TOLTECS.--TOLTEC KINGS, COURTS, AND KNIGHTHOOD.--RUINS OF THE TEMP...

INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT DIAZ; HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND HISTORY.--A CHECKERED CAREER.--SAVED FROM THE SEA.--THE FAITHFUL PURSER AND HIS REWARD.--CHARACTERISTICS OF DIAZ'S ADM...

SOUTHWARD TO SALTILLO.--SANTA CATERINA.--REMARKABLE CAVES.--SCENERY OF THE SIERRA MADRE.--WAY-SIDE ATTRACTIONS.--THE CACTUS; ITS FLOWERS AND MANY VARIETIES.--SALTILLO.--THE ALAM...

MEXICAN POLITENESS.--FREE GIFTS OF HOUSES AND OTHER PROPERTY.--AWKWARD MISTAKES.--AN ENGLISHWOMAN'S DILEMMA, AND HOW SHE GOT OUT OF IT.--UNCLE FREDDY AND THE GOVERNOR OF ACAPULC...

POTTERY AND HAMMOCK MARKETS.--HAMMOCKS IN YUCATAN; THEIR GENERAL USE FOR SLEEPING PURPOSES.--YUCATEO SALUTATIONS.--AN AWKWARD SITUATION.--FASHIONABLE, MESTIZO, AND INDIAN BALLS....

FROM SALTILLO TO JARAL.--A JOURNEY BY DILIGENCE.--PECULIARITIES OF DILIGENCE TRAVEL.--BRIGANDAGE; HOW THE GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSED IT.--ROBBERS TURNED INTO SOLDIERS.--STORIES OF BR...

ASCENT OF POPOCATEPETL.--"THE WHITE WOMAN."--GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION OF THE VOLCANO.--FIRST ASCENT BY WHITE MEN.--AMECAMECA.--HIRING HORSES AND BUYING PROVISIONS.--EQUIPMENT FOR T...

THE PASEO DE LA REFORMA.--BRIGANDAGE NEAR THE CITY.--STATUE OF CHARLES IV. OF SPAIN.--STATUE OF COLUMBUS.--A RELIC OF MAXIMILIAN.--AQUEDUCTS FROM CHAPULTEPEC.--MONTEZUMA'S TREE....

"THE MYSTERIOUS CITY;" STORIES AND RUMORS CONCERNING IT.--ACCOUNTS OF STEPHENS AND MORELET.--FATE OF TWO YOUNG AMERICANS.--DON PEDRO VELASQUEZ.--CARMEN AND CAMPEACHY.--UNDERGROU...

THE AMERICAN INVASION OF TO-DAY.--MONTEREY AS A HEALTH RESORT; ITS SITE AND SURROUNDINGS.--THE CATHEDRAL AND OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS.--CAPTURE OF MONTEREY BY GENERAL TAYLOR.--SHO...

FROM QUERETARO TO THE CAPITAL.--PLAIN OF THE CAZADERO.--TULA.--THE GREAT SPANISH DRAINAGE-CUT.--DISASTROUS INUNDATIONS OF MEXICO CITY.--A PUZZLE FOR ENGINEERS.--ARRIVAL AT THE C...

OVERLAND TO ACAPULCO.--SCENES OF LONG AGO.--PRESENT MODE OF TRAVEL.--TEN DAYS ON HORSEBACK.--WAY-SIDE ACCOMMODATIONS.--ACAPULCO'S HARBOR.--RETURN TO THE CAPITAL.--EXCURSION TO G...

RAPACIOUS CARGADORES.--OLD BOOK-STORES IN THE PORTALES.--PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE MEXICAN CAPITAL; THE PUPILS IN ATTENDANCE.--THEATRES AND HOSPITALS.--A THEATRE SUPPORTING A HOSPIT...

NAME, POPULATION, AND PECULIARITIES OF ZACATECAS.--THE PILGRIMAGE CHAPEL.--A WEALTHY CATHEDRAL.--STREET SCENES.--MINES OF ZACATECAS.--A DANGEROUS DESCENT.--THE PATIO PROCESS OF...

AQUEDUCT AT QUERETARO.--THE RESULT OF A BANTER.--THE HILL OF THE BELLS.--PLACE WHERE MAXIMILIAN WAS SHOT.--REVOLUTIONS IN MEXICO.--FOREIGN INTERVENTION.--MAXIMILIAN BECOMES EMPE...

LOST ARTS IN MEXICO.--GOLDSMITHS' WORK IN THE TIME OF CORTEZ.--SILVER FILIGREE.--MODELLING IN WAX AND CLAY.--NATIVE TASTE FOR MUSIC.--NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.--MUSEUM OF...

DOWN THE _CUMBRES_.--A MONSTER LOCOMOTIVE.--MALTRATA.--EL BARRANCA DEL INFERNILLO.--IN _THE TIERRA TEMPLADA_.--PEAK OF ORIZABA; HOW IT WAS ASCENDED.--AN OLD AND QUAINT TOWN.--EX...

THE ASCENT OF POPOCATEPETL CONTINUED.--LAST STEPS OF THE UPWARD JOURNEY.--LOSS OF LIFE ON THE MOUNTAIN.--HOW THREE INDIANS PERISHED.--THE CRATER OF THE VOLCANO.--HOW THE SULPHUR...

RAILWAY-STATION AT MERIDA.--PUBLIC CONVEYANCES.--THE _CALESA_.--A RIDE THROUGH THE STREETS.--WHEN MERIDA WAS FOUNDED.--PRACTICAL MODE OF DESIGNATING STREETS.--PUBLIC BUILDINGS.-...

SCULPTURE AND PAINTING IN MEXICO.--NATIONAL SCHOOL OF THE FINE ARTS.--BRIEF HISTORY OF MEXICAN ART.--CELEBRATED PAINTINGS.--"LAS CASAS PROTECTING THE AZTECS."--"THE DEATH OF ATA...

A ROMANTIC LEGEND.--HOW THE KING WAS OVERCOME BY THE WITCH.--VISITING THE DWARF'S HOUSE; ITS POSITION AND PECULIARITIES.--HOUSE OF THE NUNS; ITS EXTENT AND CONSTRUCTION.--_CASA...

THE CATHEDRAL OF MEXICO.--SITE OF THE AZTEC TEOCALLI.--HUMAN SACRIFICES.--PANORAMA OF THE VALLEY OF MEXICO.--EXTENT AND COST OF THE CATHEDRAL; CHAPELS AND ALTARS.--TOMB OF ITURB...

THE COATZACOALCOS RIVER.--ISTHMUS OF TEHUANTEPEC.--TEHUANTEPEC RAILWAY AND SHIP-CANAL.--THE EADS SHIP-RAILWAY.--AN IDEA OF CORTEZ.--PLANS OF CAPTAIN EADS.--A RAILWAY-CARRIAGE WI...

FIRST NIGHT IN THE HAMMOCKS.--INSPECTING A _CENOTÉ_.--UNDERGROUND WATERCOURSES AND LAKES.--HOW CENOTÉS ARE FORMED.--A SUBTERRANEAN BATH-HOUSE.--A _NORIA_.--WATER TAX ON A DIRECT...

THE ALAMEDA OF VERA CRUZ.--TROPICAL GROWTHS.--THE _PALO DE LECHE_ AND ITS PECULIARITIES.--A DANGEROUS PLANT.--FOUNTAINS AND WATER-CARRIERS.--GOVERNOR'S PALACE.--BRIEF HISTORY OF...

FURTHER SIGHTS IN PUEBLA.--ECCLESIASTICAL BUILDINGS.--SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, ASYLUMS, AND OTHER PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.--CHOLULA AND ITS GREAT PYRAMID.--FIRST SIGHT OF THE PYRAMID; IT...

SOUTHWARD AGAIN.--CROSSING A BARRANCA.--BARRANCAS IN MEXICO.--LAGOS AND ITS PECULIARITIES.--LEON, THE MANUFACTURING CITY OF MEXICO.--SILAO.--ARRIVAL AT GUANAJUATO.--A SILVER CIT...

A CHAPTER ON ARCHÆOLOGY.--NUMBER AND EXTENT OF THE RUINED CITIES OF YUCATAN.--MAYAPAN, THE ANCIENT CAPITAL.--PYRAMID OF MAYAPAN.--AKÉ AND ITS _PICOTÉ_.--AN ANCIENT WHIPPING-POST...

COURTSHIP IN MEXICO.--"PLAYING THE BEAR."--LOVERS' TROUBLES.--A SHORT ROAD TO MATRIMONY.--PRESENTS TO THE EXPECTANT BRIDE.--THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY.--TEDIOUS PRELIMINARIES.--CIVIL...

THE NOCHE TRISTE TREE.--A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO.--DEPARTURE OF CORTEZ FROM CUBA.--HE LANDS IN YUCATAN.--FOUNDING THE CITY OF VERA CRUZ.--DEFEATING THE TLASCALA...

PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE.--PLANS FOR THE JOURNEY.--TO MEXICO BY RAIL.--BAGGAGE, AND BOOKS ON THE COUNTRY.--BRUSHING UP THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF SPANISH.--WESTWARD FROM NEW YORK.--A...

AREA AND INHABITANTS OF MEXICO.--CHARACTER OF THE POPULATION.--INDIANS, EUROPEANS, AND MESTIZOS; THEIR RESPECTIVE NUMBERS AND CHARACTERISTICS.--INCLINATIONS OF THE MIXED RACES.-...

CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE REPUBLICS COMPOSING IT; A SKETCH OF THEIR HISTORY; AREA AND POPULATION.--SNAKES, LIZARDS, AND OTHER CREEPING THINGS.--COSTA RICA AND ITS REVOLUTIONS.--A...

THE STORY OR LIBERTY.--OLD TIMES IN THE COLONIES.--THE BOYS OF '76 (A History of the Battles of the Revolution).--BUILDING THE NATION.--THE DRUM-BEAT OR THE NATION.--MARCHING TO...

CHINA.--PART II. ADVENTURES OF TWO YOUTHS IN A JOURNEY TO SIAM AND JAVA. With Descriptions of Cochin-China, Cambodia, Sumatra, and the Malay Archipelago.--PART III. ADVENTURES O...

SCULPTURE AND PAINTING IN MEXICO.--NATIONAL SCHOOL OF THE FINE ARTS.--BRIEF HISTORY OF MEXICAN ART.--CELEBRATED PAINTINGS.--"LAS CASAS PROTECTING THE AZTECS."--"THE DEATH OF ATA...

THE ALAMEDA OF VERA CRUZ.--TROPICAL GROWTHS.--THE PALO DE LECHE AND ITS PECULIARITIES.--A DANGEROUS PLANT.--FOUNTAINS AND WATER-CARRIERS.--GOVERNOR'S PALACE.--BRIEF HISTORY OF V...

THE AMERICAN INVASION OF TO-DAY.--MONTEREY AS A HEALTH RESORT; ITS SITE AND SURROUNDINGS.--THE CATHEDRAL AND OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS.--CAPTURE OF MONTEREY BY GENERAL TAYLOR.--SHO...

LOST ARTS IN MEXICO.--GOLDSMITHS' WORK IN THE TIME OF CORTEZ.--SILVER FILIGREE.--MODELLING IN WAX AND CLAY.--NATIVE TASTE FOR MUSIC.--NATIONAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.--MUSEUM OF...

AQUEDUCT AT QUERETARO.--THE RESULT OF A BANTER.--THE HILL OF THE BELLS.--PLACE WHERE MAXIMILIAN WAS SHOT.--REVOLUTIONS IN MEXICO.--FOREIGN INTERVENTION.--MAXIMILIAN BECOMES EMPE...

THE ASCENT OF POPOCATEPETL CONTINUED.--LAST STEPS OF THE UPWARD JOURNEY.--LOSS OF LIFE ON THE MOUNTAIN.--HOW THREE INDIANS PERISHED.--THE CRATER OF THE VOLCANO.--HOW THE SULPHUR...

SOUTHWARD AGAIN.--CROSSING A BARRANCA.--BARRANCAS IN MEXICO.--LAGOS AND ITS PECULIARITIES.--LEON, THE MANUFACTURING CITY OF MEXICO.--SILAO.--ARRIVAL AT GUANAJUATO.--A SILVER CIT...

THE CATHEDRAL OF MEXICO.--SITE OF THE AZTEC TEOCALLI.--HUMAN SACRIFICES.--PANORAMA OF THE VALLEY OF MEXICO.--EXTENT AND COST OF THE CATHEDRAL; CHAPELS AND ALTARS.--TOMB OF ITURB...

MEXICAN POLITENESS.--FREE GIFTS OF HOUSES AND OTHER PROPERTY.--AWKWARD MISTAKES.--AN ENGLISHWOMAN'S DILEMMA, AND HOW SHE GOT OUT OF IT.--UNCLE FREDDY AND THE GOVERNOR OF ACAPULC...

POTTERY AND HAMMOCK MARKETS.--HAMMOCKS IN YUCATAN; THEIR GENERAL USE FOR SLEEPING PURPOSES.--YUCATEO SALUTATIONS.--AN AWKWARD SITUATION.--FASHIONABLE, MESTIZO, AND INDIAN BALLS....

FIRST NIGHT IN THE HAMMOCKS.--INSPECTING A CENOTÉ.-- UNDERGROUND WATERCOURSES AND LAKES.--HOW CENOTÉS ARE FORMED.--A SUBTERRANEAN BATH-HOUSE.--A NORIA.--WATER TAX ON A DIRECT SY...

THE NOCHE TRISTE TREE.--A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO.--DEPARTURE OF CORTEZ FROM CUBA.--HE LANDS IN YUCATAN.--FOUNDING THE CITY OF VERA CRUZ.--DEFEATING THE TLASCALA...

EXCURSION TO TULA.--AN ANCIENT CITY OF THE TOLTECS.--CHURCH OF THE TIME OF CORTEZ.--MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE TOLTECS.-- TOLTEC KINGS, COURTS, AND KNIGHTHOOD.--RUINS OF THE TEM...

ASCENT OF POPOCATEPETL.--"THE WHITE WOMAN."--GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION OF THE VOLCANO.--FIRST ASCENT BY WHITE MEN.-- AMECAMECA.--HIRING HORSES AND BUYING PROVISIONS.--EQUIPMENT FOR...

HOTELS ON THE FRONTIER.--ACCOMMODATIONS AT LAREDO.--SMUGGLING OVER THE BORDER.--LAREDO AS A RAILWAY CENTRE.--THE RIO GRANDE AND ITS PECULIARITIES.--RIVERS BENEATH THE SANDS.--EN...

THE PASEO DE LA REFORMA.--BRIGANDAGE NEAR THE CITY.--STATUE OF CHARLES IV. OF SPAIN.--STATUE OF COLUMBUS.--A RELIC OF MAXIMILIAN.--AQUEDUCTS FROM CHAPULTEPEC.--MONTEZUMA'S TREE....

RAILWAY-STATION AT MERIDA.--PUBLIC CONVEYANCES.--THE CALESA.--A RIDE THROUGH THE STREETS.--WHEN MERIDA WAS FOUNDED.--PRACTICAL MODE OF DESIGNATING STREETS.--PUBLIC BUILDINGS.--C...

FROM QUERETARO TO THE CAPITAL.--PLAIN OF THE CAZADERO.-- TULA.--THE GREAT SPANISH DRAINAGE-CUT.--DISASTROUS INUNDATIONS OF MEXICO CITY.--A PUZZLE FOR ENGINEERS.--ARRIVAL AT THE...

OVERLAND TO ACAPULCO.--SCENES OF LONG AGO.--PRESENT MODE OF TRAVEL.--TEN DAYS ON HORSEBACK.--WAY-SIDE ACCOMMODATIONS.-- ACAPULCO'S HARBOR.--RETURN TO THE CAPITAL.--EXCURSION TO...

DOWN THE CUMBRES.--A MONSTER LOCOMOTIVE.--MALTRATA.--EL BARRANCA DEL INFERNILLO.--IN THE TIERRA TEMPLADA.--PEAK OF ORIZABA; HOW IT WAS ASCENDED.--AN OLD AND QUAINT TOWN.-- EXCUR...

PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE.--PLANS FOR THE JOURNEY.--TO MEXICO BY RAIL.--BAGGAGE, AND BOOKS ON THE COUNTRY.--BRUSHING UP THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF SPANISH.--WESTWARD FROM NEW YORK.--A...

THE COATZACOALCOS RIVER.--ISTHMUS OF TEHUANTEPEC.--TEHUANTEPEC RAILWAY AND SHIP-CANAL.--THE EADS SHIP-RAILWAY.--AN IDEA OF CORTEZ.--PLANS OF CAPTAIN EADS.--A RAILWAY-CARRIAGE WI...

A CHAPTER ON ARCHÆOLOGY.--NUMBER AND EXTENT OF THE RUINED CITIES OF YUCATAN.--MAYAPAN, THE ANCIENT CAPITAL.--PYRAMID OF MAYAPAN.--AKÉ AND ITS PICOTÉ.--AN ANCIENT WHIPPING-POST.-...

FROM SALTILLO TO JARAL.--A JOURNEY BY DILIGENCE.--PECULIARITIES OF DILIGENCE TRAVEL.--BRIGANDAGE; HOW THE GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSED IT.--ROBBERS TURNED INTO SOLDIERS.--STORIES OF BR...

INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT DIAZ; HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND HISTORY.--A CHECKERED CAREER.--SAVED FROM THE SEA.--THE FAITHFUL PURSER AND HIS REWARD.--CHARACTERISTICS OF DIAZ'S ADM...

FURTHER SIGHTS IN PUEBLA.--ECCLESIASTICAL BUILDINGS.--SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, ASYLUMS, AND OTHER PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.--CHOLULA AND ITS GREAT PYRAMID.--FIRST SIGHT OF THE PYRAMID; IT...

NAME, POPULATION, AND PECULIARITIES OF ZACATECAS.--THE PILGRIMAGE CHAPEL.--A WEALTHY CATHEDRAL.--STREET SCENES.--MINES OF ZACATECAS.--A DANGEROUS DESCENT.--THE PATIO PROCESS OF...

AREA AND INHABITANTS OF MEXICO.--CHARACTER OF THE POPULATION.--INDIANS, EUROPEANS, AND MESTIZOS; THEIR RESPECTIVE NUMBERS AND CHARACTERISTICS.--INCLINATIONS OF THE MIXED RACES.-...

A ROMANTIC LEGEND.--HOW THE KING WAS OVERCOME BY THE WITCH.-- VISITING THE DWARF'S HOUSE; ITS POSITION AND PECULIARITIES.-- HOUSE OF THE NUNS; ITS EXTENT AND CONSTRUCTION.--CASA...

SOUTHWARD TO SALTILLO.--SANTA CATERINA.--REMARKABLE CAVES.--SCENERY OF THE SIERRA MADRE.--WAY-SIDE ATTRACTIONS.--THE CACTUS; ITS FLOWERS AND MANY VARIETIES.--SALTILLO.--THE ALAM...

RAPACIOUS CARGADORES.--OLD BOOK-STORES IN THE PORTALES.-- PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE MEXICAN CAPITAL; THE PUPILS IN ATTENDANCE.--THEATRES AND HOSPITALS.--A THEATRE SUPPORTING A HOSPI...

"THE MYSTERIOUS CITY;" STORIES AND RUMORS CONCERNING IT.-- ACCOUNTS OF STEPHENS AND MORELET.--FATE OF TWO YOUNG AMERICANS.--DON PEDRO VELASQUEZ.--CARMEN AND CAMPEACHY.-- UNDERGR...

COURTSHIP IN MEXICO.--"PLAYING THE BEAR."--LOVERS' TROUBLES.--A SHORT ROAD TO MATRIMONY.--PRESENTS TO THE EXPECTANT BRIDE.--THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY.--TEDIOUS PRELIMINARIES.--CIVIL...