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

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AREA AND INHABITANTS OF MEXICO.--CHARACTER OF THE POPULATION.--INDIANS, EUROPEANS, AND MESTIZOS; THEIR RESPECTIVE NUMBERS AND CHARACTERISTICS.--INCLINATIONS OF THE MIXED RACES.--TENDENCIES OF EDUCATED INDIANS.-- PRESIDENT JUAREZ AS AN EXAMPLE.--HOW THE INDIANS LIVE.-- HOW THE SPANIARDS TOOK POSSESSION OF THE LAND.--CREOLES AND THEIR ORIGIN.--THE MESTIZOS.--LEPEROS AND THEIR CHARACTER.-- ADROIT THIEVES.--PAWNING A CHURCH ORGAN.--THE LEPEROS AND THE BRIGANDS.--CHURCH OF SAN DOMINGO.--SHORT HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION IN MEXICO.--THE AUTO-DA-FÉ. 264