قراءة كتاب Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia
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Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia
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ejemplo.—We bid a Hasty Farewell.—An Ambulating Pulperia.—San Juan de
Lagos.—Arrieros.—Puente Calderon.—Bathing in the Rio Grande.—The Rayo.
are.—La Comedia.—Antique Guide.—Execution of Robbers.—Tequilla.—Patron
of the Meson and his Daughters.—Endurance of Mexican Soldiers.—Adaptability
of Western Provinces for Military Operations.—La Nubarrada.—Horse
Jockeying.—We are made Unhappy.—Bathing in Tepic.—Rio Grande and Santiago.
—Shower of Water Melons.—Rio San Pedro.—Rosa Morada.—Acaponeta.—High
Mass.—Tierra Caliente, and Old Tomas, the Poet.—We return to Mazatlan.
enacted.—Thieves and Leperos.—How to learn Castilian.—Evacuation of Mazatlan
by the U. S. Forces.
Vegetation.—How we amused Ourselves.—Fandangos.—Ball on Shipboard.—Marine
Pic Nic.—The Carrera.—The Uncivil Vacuero and his Rude Cattle.—The
Chowder Party.—Perils and Pearl Fishing.—Hunting.—Game in Lower California.
—The Cove of San Antonio, and Escape from Boatwreck.
Volunteer who shot his Wife.—Little Sam Patch.—Flying Visit to Mazatlan,
and Last Farewell.
Hilo.—Natives.—Scenery.—Constables.—Meeting House.—Dialect.—Sermon.—We
Depart for the Interior.—Half-way House.—Society there, and how they cook
Turkeys.—Volcano of Kilauea.—Frozen Sea of Lava.—The Great Crater.—Sulphur
Banks.—Return to Hilo.
of fattening them.—Water Nymphs.—Rainbow Falls.—The Wailuku.—The
Three-Decker.—Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.
James Young.—His Fortress.—Surf-Swimming by Girls, who gave us Lessons.
of Hawaiians.—Their Crimes and Vices.—Board of Presbyterian Missions.
—Exaggerations upon Moral Condition of the Natives.—Expulsion of Catholics.
—Saturnalia of Kanakas.—Rage for Horses.—Straw Hamlets.—and Life within them.
of the Palace.—Approach of Royalty.—Speeches.—Costumes.—Princes
of the blood royal, who patronise us.—And what became of Moses.
and Passage to Marquesas.
other Ornaments.—French Garrison.—Physical Characteristics of these Savages.
—Bathing.—King's Residence, where we beheld a Nobleman drunk with Arva.
—Making Fire with Sticks.—An Ancestor Embalmed.—Catholics.—Vagabonds
and Deserters.—Whaling Interests.
—Shores and Batteries.—Missionaries.—Melville.