The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.

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.

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

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.

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.