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Title: Travels of Anna Bishop in Mexico. 1849
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Bishop, Anna Rivière, 1814-1884 Deal, Charles, pub
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : C. Deal
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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rks ;as also plates, a furnished kitchen, provisions,wine, or other trifles which they might want onthe route—and all this they determined to do.For, be it known, in the meson^^ where our partywould have to take their meals and sleep by theway, no decent larder could be expected ; and asfor beds—the luxuries afforded were limited to awooden bench, not always with its necessary com-plement of legs, a rickety table, with cross-piecesfor the feet, and placed so high up that the sittersknees and chin met—to conclude with a smallplatform, frequently of brick, in a comer, whereon,with or without mattrasses, travellers might lie atpleasure. Sometimes the platform of brick is notto be had at any price, and the traveller has, inconsequence, to put up with the dinner-table. * Meson—derived, no doubt, from the French, maison—atavern with a ground-floor only, and bed-rooms set all roundthe court-yard. Here Mexican travelling-carriages, mules, andmuleteers, usually stop over night.—Ed.
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ANNA IN MEXICO. 137 The carriage which had been selected for thejourney was of a most ancient and venerableaspect—shaped like a stupendous melon. Andwhat added not a little to its bulk and ponder-ousness, was its paint. The body of that vehiclewas, in the main, one massive compound incrust-ation of paint—paint which seemed to have beenplastered on semi-annually for centuries, brokeninto innumerable deep and fantastic dents, appear-ing to Bochsas first sight a combination of therichest elaborate stucco-work and Ijas-Telief. Itselevation (some four feet) from the ground, sug-gested at once the necessity of a chair to ascendto the first step, and the word chair was im-mediately on Bochsas memoranda, to be piledup back, with the other trifles. For there weretwo huge platforms, behind and before it, eachlarge enough to carry a vehicle much above itsown size, if thought proper; while underneath itswung a great net, made of cables, for the purposeof bearing luggage of a heavier descripti

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