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

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

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.

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.

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

Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.