Identifier: mexicoitsancient01enoc (find matches)
Title: Mexico, its ancient and modern civilisation, history and political conditions, topography and natural resources, industries and general development;
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Enock, C. Reginald (Charles Reginald), 1868-1970
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Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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carefully examined the interior, with acandle, before turning in, and the mozo, with a piece offirewood, has smashed the offending centipedes, of whichthere were a number. Both the scorpion and centipedehave a venomous sting, the former sometimes fatal. Asto the peones, they display small concern at the presenceof these vermin. God willing we shall not be stung,they say, and, rolling themselves in their ponchos on thebare floor in a corner of the habitation, they are soonasleep. But sleep does not visit me so easily. An un-comfortable impression remains, which has not beenlessened by the casual remark of the owner of the hutregarding the habits of the scorpions. Very knowingcreatures, sefior, he says, as he obsequiously helps toarrange my couch in the middle of the floor—a positionchosen by myself—they have a habit of droppingfrom the roof on to a person sleeping beneath ! Mexico, unlike other Cordilleran countries, lends itselfto travel in certain directions by means of roads and
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LIFE AND TRAVEL IX MEXICO : MULES, PEOX, AND CACTUS. (To face p. 235. MEXICAN LIFE AND TRAVEL 235 vehicles. The diligencias which give communicationfrom remote places to the wayside stations of the rail-ways, where the nature of the topography admits ofroads for wheeled vehicles, are canvas-topped carriagesdrawn by half a dozen mules. Over the dusty plains ofthe tableland and through the rugged scenery of hill-passes these somewhat crazy vehicles perform theirjourneys, starting often before sunrise and arrivingafter sunset in order to accomplish their toilsome tra-jectory. Jolting over the ruts and arroyos of the scarcely-tended roads —if by courtesy they may be termed such—and baked by the sun blazing upon the carriage-hood,the traveller would often prefer to exchange his uncom-fortable seat for that of the saddle. Often a moreagreeable method is by alternating these methods. I journeyed, on one occasion, with a padre, or villagepriest; not, however, in a public diligencia, but i

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