[Illustration: LAS CASAS PROTECTING THE AZTECS.
By Felix Parra.]
OLD MEXICO
AND HER LOST PROVINCES
A JOURNEY IN
MEXICO, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, AND ARIZONA
BY WAY OF CUBA
BY WILLIAM HENRY BISHOP
AUTHOR OF “DETMOLD” “THE HOUSE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE” ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
NEW YORK
HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE
1883
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
_All rights reserved._
CONTENTS.
PAGE
PART I.—OLD MEXICO.
I. _By Way of Cuba and the Spanish Main_ 1
II. _Vera Cruz_ 16
III. _Up the Long Mountain Slope_ 24
IV. _The Capital_ 37
V. _The Projectors_ 54
VI. _The Ferro-carriles_ 70
VII. _The Railways at Work_ 80
VIII. _The Question of Money, and Shopping_ 96
IX. _Social Life, and some Notable Institutions_ 107
X. _The Fine Arts and Literature_ 120
XI. _Some Traits of Peculiar History, and the Mexican
“Warwick”_ 134
XII. _Cuatitlan, and Around Lakes Xochimilco and Chalco_ 149
XIII. _To Old Texcoco_ 162
XIV. _Popocatepetl Ascended_ 175
XV. _A Banquet, and a Tragedy, at Cuautla-Morelos_ 185
XVI. _San Juan, Orizaba, and Cordoba Revisited_ 192
XVII. _Puebla, Cholula, Tlaxcala_ 210
XVIII. _Mines and Mining Traits, at Pachuco and Regla_ 227
XIX. _A Week at a Mexican Country-house_ 245
XX. _On Horseback and Muleback to Acapulco_ 263
XXI. _Conversations by the Way with a Colonel_ 275