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

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

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

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.

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.