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

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.

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.

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.

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.