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.

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

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

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

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

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.

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