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.

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

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

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.

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

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