File:Our next-door neighbor- a winter in Mexico (1875) (14741334816).jpg

Identifier: ournextdoorneigh00have (find matches)
Title: Our next-door neighbor: a winter in Mexico
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Haven, Gilbert, Bishop, 1821-1880
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
e thus a not extravagant part of the landscape. They donot stretch suddenly and extraordinarily above their fellows. Theyare prinii inter pairs. A fall of rain here at this season will makeall this high ridge snow. It wasso last week, but the snow wasgone ere noon, except from the two head centres. The king andqueen reign (or snow) perpetually. The torrid sun, it would seem, ought to burn off their mantle.You can not sit in it now half an hour. It burns on the kneeslike a burning-glass. I must retreat to the shadow of a tall stonebass-relief lifted up at the front of the roof, and at the foot of aheadless statue, once a Magdalene, I judge, conclude this portrait. It shows how high they are, and how distant also, not less thansixty miles away, if you notice that range of cliffs that lies betweenthem and us. They, too, are well lifted up, and they crouch as lionsat the base of these mighty powers. See the volcanic origin also. The craters are visible of these 106 OUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR.
Text Appearing After Image:
THE DOME. lower hills. Some look just like a bowl upside down, with its bot-tom cut off—a round hollow. You have seen the valley of Mexico. On that north-easternedge of the snow range, a few feet above the lake, you remember,Cortez stood and viewed the landscape over, and said, I mustsubdue this exquisite region for our Lady and her Christ. What ANOTHER BATTLE. 109 a job he undertook he hardly then dreamed. How much laborand loss of life, fightings without and fears within, before he rode aconqueror through these streets, which he had made without inhab-itant, and almost without a dwelling-place. Inch by inch he level-ed off the Aztec city. Two years and over he plotted and fought,and fought and plotted, ere the prize was his. The bloodless battle now being fought for the recovery of thissame land to Christ, how long will that take ? How many will fall ?Not so bloodless, perhaps, after all. A more cunning enemy thanMontezuma, a more daring one than Guatemozin is to be subdued.He may

Note About Images