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CONTENTS.
Part I.—OLD MEXICO.
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I. | By Way of Cuba and the Spanish Main | 1 |
II. | Vera Cruz | 16 |
III. | Up the Long Mountain Slope | 24 |
IV. | The Capital | 37 |
V. | The Projectors | 54 |
VI. | The Ferro-carriles | 70 |
VII. | The Railways at Work | 80 |
VIII. | The Question of Money, and Shopping | 96 |
IX. | Social Life, and some Notable Institutions | 107 |
X. | The Fine Arts and Literature | 120 |
XI. | Some Traits of Peculiar History, and the Mexican "Warwick" | 134 |
XII. | Cuatitlan, and Around Lakes Xochimilco and Chalco | 149 |
XIII. | To Old Texcoco | 162 |
XIV. | Popocatepetl Ascended | 175 |
XV. | A Banquet, and a Tragedy, at Cuautla-Morelos | 185 |
XVI. | San Juan, Orizaba, and Cordoba Revisited | 192 |
XVII. | Puebla, Cholula, Tlaxcala | 210 |
XVIII. | Mines and Mining Traits, at Pachuca and Regla | 227 |
XIX. | A Week at a Mexican Country-house | 245 |
XX. | On Horseback and Muleback to Acapulco | 263 |
XXI. | Conversations by the Way with a Colonel | 275 |