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Title: Wanderings in Mexico; the spirited chronicle of adventure in Mexican highways and byways
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Gillpatrick, Owen Wallace, 1862-1925
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Nash
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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own asmal homhre (bad man) and mala inujer (bad woman).They have broad, flat leaves and are really nettles. One thing reminded me of the North, even there.It was a beautiful creeper with a blue flower like ourmorning-glory. In the North, it is carefully tended andopens only for a few hours in the morning. Here itruns wild over everything, coffee plants, banana palms,fences and trees alike; leaping from one to another,trailing in streamers and deep festoons, and flauntingits exquisite azure flowers all day long, and all night,for aught I know. I am reminded to speak of the birds. They are every-where,— in cages, in the trees, in the city and out of it;and all sing, with full-throated, flute-like voices. I im-agine the altitude, less than four thousand feet, is betterfor vocal organs than a higher one. In the mountains,at a height of eight to ten thousand feet, there are nosong birds; at least where I have been. There are plentyof birds, but all have harsh, shrill cries. Even the cat-
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On the Viga Canal THE MAN WHO LIKES MEXICO 239 tie seem incapable of good hearty lowing, but bleat feeblyas though they had weak lungs. Every time I went on the streets I noticed thingsthat are different from Mexico City. The women of theserving-class wear, many of them, what I should callfor lack of a better name, a sort of scuff slipper whichprotects the toes and sole of the foot and is only kept inplace by scuffing as they walk. It is unusual to see aslovenly house mozo. His clothes are all wash materialand show that they are frequently laundered. The poor-est evidently possess at least one change. As the serv-ants here are more active, much more seems to be re-quired of them. Our table-boy swept the corridor anddid chamber work besides; and if one of the childrencried while he was serving the table, he darted out topacify it. Some of the Jalapa milkmen ride horses ormules, and carry four cans in straw pockets, slung foreand aft from the saddle. Pulque, which is brought fromup abov

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