ON THE MEXICAN HIGHLANDS With a Passing Glimpse of Cuba

FOREWORD

CONTENTS

TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS

I Flying Impressions Between Charleston-Kanawha and New Orleans

II The Life and Color of New Orleans

III Southwestward to the Border

IV On to Mexico City

V First Impressions of Mexico City

VI Vivid Characteristics of Mexican Life

VII A Mexican Bullfight

VIII From Pullman Car to Mule-back

IX A Journey Over Lofty Tablelands

X A Provincial Despot and His Residence

XI Inguran Mines—Five Thousand Six Hundred Feet Below Ario

XII Antique Methods of Mining

XIII Some Tropical Financial Morality

XIV Wayside Incidents in the Land of Heat

XV Morelia—The Capital of the State of Michoacan—Her Streets—Her Parks—Her Churches—Her Music

XVI Morelia and Toluca—The Markets—The Colleges—The Schools—The Ancient and the Modern Spirit

XVII Cuernavaca—The County Seat of Montezuma, of Cortez and Spanish Viceroys, of Maximilian—A Pleasant Watering Place of Modern Mexico

XVIII The Journey by Night from Mexico City—Over the Mountains to the Sea Coast—The Ancient City of Vera Cruz

XIX Voyaging Across the Gulf of Mexico and Straits of Yucatan from Vera Cruz to Progresso and Havana

XX The City of “Habana”—Incidents of a Day’s Sojourn in the Cuban Capital

XXI Cuba—The Fortress of La Cabaña

XXII Cuba—Her Fertile Sugar Lands—Matanzas by the Sea

XXIII Cuba—The Tobacco Lands of Guanajay—The Town and Bay of Mariel

XXIV Steamer Mascot

INDEX