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.

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

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

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.

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.

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

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.