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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.
Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.
There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.
During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.
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.
Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society
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.
Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.
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.
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.
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.
do not think I have ever met with a single fact which seems to me to justify the theory, of which Dr. von Martius is perhaps the leading advocate, that the ordinary condition of the savage is the result of degeneration from a far higher state.
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 of taste, just as it is in Holland.
