India rubber world . As a mat-ter of fact, noneof us suffered theslightest incon-venience. We didsuffer a disap-pointment in notbeing able to seethe city, which lieshundreds of feetbelow the railway,but night hadfallen and wecould only guessits location fromthe twinkiing lights far below us. The next morning we passedthrough Oueretara, where Maximilian was executed, and breakfasted at Tula, a station some miles further on. Here we were in-troduced afresh to the staple articles of Mexican food, the tortillaand the frifo/e. The former is a flat cake of unleavened breadmade of corn flour that tea
India rubber world . As a mat-ter of fact, noneof us suffered theslightest incon-venience. We didsuffer a disap-pointment in notbeing able to seethe city, which lieshundreds of feetbelow the railway,but night hadfallen and wecould only guessits location fromthe twinkiing lights far below us. The next morning we passedthrough Oueretara, where Maximilian was executed, and breakfasted at Tula, a station some miles further on. Here we were in-troduced afresh to the staple articles of Mexican food, the tortillaand the frifo/e. The former is a flat cake of unleavened breadmade of corn flour that tears like blotting paper and is about aspalatable. It is made by the native women, who treat the cornfirst with a solution of lye to destroy the outer skin and thencrush it on a little three legged stone table called a mutate, bymeans of a stone manoox rolling pin. This, mixed with water,is baked, and is apparently much prized by the natives. Thefrijoles or Mexican beans are of two kinds, negros and bianco.— that is, black and white. To my palate the black ones are al-together the best, although I enjoyed both. The Mexicans arealso very fond of meats which are cooked almost as soon askilled, and, therefore, apt to be tough. In their cooking theyuse a great deal of lard and make a greasy compound that agringo stomach finds hard to digest. I [HINK it was at Tula that we got a first sight of Mexicanopals. It is well known that almost every visitor to the landof the Aztecs has a vision of the purchase of opals atan exceedingly low price, and the best of stones atthat. It was here that we all had our chance. Several darkhued vendors showed packages of stones that were beauties. The asking piicewas high, how-ever, and was low-ered only whenthe train began tomove. We allknew what thismeant. A hurriedassent, the trans-fer of the coin andthe package ofopals,and the sub-sequent discoverythat another pack-age of less valua-ble stones hadbeen deftly substi-tuted. So we allrefused t
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