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قراءة كتاب On the Mexican Highlands With a Passing Glimpse of Cuba

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On the Mexican Highlands With a Passing Glimpse of Cuba

On the Mexican Highlands With a Passing Glimpse of Cuba

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ON THE MEXICAN HIGHLANDS
With a Passing Glimpse of Cuba

BY
WILLIAM SEYMOUR EDWARDS
Author of “In To The Yukon,” “Through Scandinavia to Moscow,” etc.

CINCINNATI
PRESS OF JENNINGS AND GRAHAM

Copyright, 1906, by
William Seymour Edwards


THE SIX COMRADES OF CAMP FLAP-JACK—1881

To
Julius H. Seymour, Otto Ulrich von Schrader, Edmund Seymour, and Rudolph Matz, Companions, Comrades, and Fellow-Travellers of
“CAMP FLAP-JACK”
These pages are affectionately dedicated.

FOREWORD

These pages contain the impressions of a casual traveller—a few letters written to my friends.

Upon the temperate Highlands of Mexico, a mile and more above the sea, I was astonished and delighted at the salubrity of climate, the fertility of soil, the luxuriance of tree and plant, the splendor and beauty of the cities, the intelligence and progressiveness of the people, the orderliness and beneficence of the governmental rule.

In Cuba I caught the newborn sentiment for liberty and order, and at the same time came curiously into touch with restive leaders, who even then boldly announced the intention to plot and wreck that liberty and order by sinister revolution, if their wild spirits should find no other way to seize and hold command.

If there shall be aught among these letters to interest the reader, I shall welcome another to the little circle for whose perusal they were originally penned.

William Seymour Edwards.

Charleston-Kanawha, West Virginia,

November 1, 1906.

CONTENTS

Chapter   Page
I. Flying Impressions between Charleston-Kanawha and New Orleans, 15
II. The Life and Color of New Orleans, 25
III. Southwestward to the Border, 36
IV. On to Mexico City, 44
V. First Impressions of Mexico City, 56
VI. Vivid Characteristics of Mexican Life, 65
VII. A Mexican Bullfight, 75
VIII. From Pullman Car to Mule-back, 86
IX. A Journey Over Lofty Tablelands, 99
X. A Provincial Despot and His Residence, 107
XI. Inguran Mines—Five Thousand Six Hundred Feet Below Ario, 117
XII. Antique Methods of Mining, 128
XIII. Some Tropical Financial Morality, 142
XIV. Wayside Incidents in the Land of Heat, 157
XV. Morelia—The Capital of the State of Michoacan—Her Streets—Her Parks—Her Churches—Her Music, 168
XVI. Morelia and Toluca—The Markets—The Colleges—The Schools—The Ancient and the Modern Spirit, 181
XVII. Cuernavaca—The Country Seat of Montezuma, of Cortez and Spanish Viceroys, of Maximilian—A Pleasant Watering Place of Modern Mexico, 188
XVIII. The Journey by Night from Mexico City—Over the Mountains to the Sea Coast—The Ancient City of Vera Cruz, 198
XIX. Voyaging Across the Gulf of Mexico and Straits of Yucatan from Vera Cruz to Progresso and Havana, 210
XX. The City of “Habana”—Incidents of a Day’s Sojourn in the Cuban Capital,

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