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CONTENTS.




Part I.—OLD MEXICO.

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I. By Way of Cuba and the Spanish Main

1

II. Vera Cruz

16

III. Up the Long Mountain Slope

24

IV. The Capital

37

V. The Projectors

54

VI. The Ferro-carriles

70

VII. The Railways at Work

80

VIII. The Question of Money, and Shopping

96

IX. Social Life, and some Notable Institutions

107

X. The Fine Arts and Literature

120

XI. Some Traits of Peculiar History, and the Mexican "Warwick"

134

XII. Cuatitlan, and Around Lakes Xochimilco and Chalco

149

XIII. To Old Texcoco

162

XIV. Popocatepetl Ascended

175

XV. A Banquet, and a Tragedy, at Cuautla-Morelos

185

XVI. San Juan, Orizaba, and Cordoba Revisited

192

XVII. Puebla, Cholula, Tlaxcala

210

XVIII. Mines and Mining Traits, at Pachuca and Regla

227

XIX. A Week at a Mexican Country-house

245

XX. On Horseback and Muleback to Acapulco

263

XXI. Conversations by the Way with a Colonel

275