The Shrine of Guadalupe.--Priestly Miracles.--A Remarkable Spring.--The Chapels about the Hill.--A Singular Votive Offering.--Church of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe.--Costly Decorations.--A Campo Santo.--Tomb of Santa Anna.--Strange Contrasts.--Guadalupe-Hidalgo.--The Twelve Shrines on the Causeway.--The Viga Canal.--The Floating Islands.--Indian Gamblers.--Vegetable Market.--Flower Girls.--The "Noche- Triste" Tree.--Ridiculous Signs.--Queer Titles.--Floral Festival 205
Castle of Chapultepec.--"Hill of the Grasshopper."--Montezuma's Retreat.--Palace of the Aztec Kings.--West Point of Mexico. --Battles of Molino del Rey and Churubusco.--The Mexican White House.--High above Sea Level.--Village of Tacubaya.--Antique Carvings.--Ancient Toluca.--The Maguey.--Fine Scenery.--Cima. --Snowy Peaks.--Leon d'Oro.--The Bull-Ring and Cockpit.--A Literary Institution.--The Coral Tree.--Ancient Pyramids.-- Pachuca.--Silver Product of the Mines.--A Cornish Colony.-- Native Cabins.--Indian Endurance 220
Puebla, the Sacred City.--General Forey.--Battle-Ground.--View of the City.--Priestly Miracles.--The Cathedral.--Snow-Crowned Mountains.--A Cleanly Capital.--The Plaza Mayor.--A Typical Picture.--The Old Seller of Rosaries.--Mexican Ladies.--Palm Sunday.--Church Gala Day.--Education--Confiscation of Church Property.--A Curious Arch.--A Doll Image.--Use of Glazed Tiles.--Onyx a Staple Production.--Fine Work of Native Indian Women.--State of Puebla full of Rich Resources.--A Dynamite Bomb.--The Key of the Capital 241
Ancient Cholula.--A Grand Antiquity.--The Cheops of Mexico.-- Traditions relating to the Pyramid.--The Toltecs.--Cholula of To-Day.--Comprehensive View.--A Modern Tower of Babel.-- Multiplicity of Ruins.--Cortez's Exaggerations.--Sacrifices of Human Beings.--The Hateful Inquisition.--A Wholesale Murderous Scheme.--Unreliable Historians.--Spanish Falsification.-- Interesting Churches.--Off the Track.--Personal Relics of Cortez.--Torturing a Victim.--Aztec Antiquities.--Tlaxcala.-- Church of San Francisco.--Peon Dwellings.--Cortez and the Tlaxcalans 258
Down into the Hot Lands.--Wonderful Mountain Scenery.--Parasitic Vines.--Luscious Fruits.--Orchids.--Orizaba.--State of Vera Cruz.--The Kodak.--Churches.--A Native Artist.--Schools.-- Climate.--Crystal Peak of Orizaba.--Grand Waterfall.--The American Flag.--Disappointed Climbers.--A Night Surprise.-- The French Invasion.--The Plaza.--Indian Characteristics.-- Early Morning Sights.--Maximilian in Council.--Difficult Engineering.--Wild Flowers.--A Cascade.--Cordova.--The Banana. --Coffee Plantations.--Fertile Soil.--Market Scenes 282