An artillery officer in the Mexican war, 1846-7; . rther on you see a pile of curious-shapedearthen pots; they are used for cooking, some arefor meats and vegetables, others for chocolate, andothers are water jars. Next you see several straw hats;they are worn by the people of the country; the pricesare from 25 cts. apiece to $ That man is sellingcoarse Mexican blankets and some common cottongoods. Now we will commence with the next line; here yousee no tables, the articles are either in open boxesslightly raised on one side, on coarse matting, or uponthe pavement. The first box contains
An artillery officer in the Mexican war, 1846-7; . rther on you see a pile of curious-shapedearthen pots; they are used for cooking, some arefor meats and vegetables, others for chocolate, andothers are water jars. Next you see several straw hats;they are worn by the people of the country; the pricesare from 25 cts. apiece to $ That man is sellingcoarse Mexican blankets and some common cottongoods. Now we will commence with the next line; here yousee no tables, the articles are either in open boxesslightly raised on one side, on coarse matting, or uponthe pavement. The first box contains a large driedblack pepper; this is the sweet pepper; next are greenpeppers, birds-eye peppers, the true cayenne, andanother kind somewhat larger. There are blackbeans, the favorite bean, about the size of our gardenpea; next the large kidney, then the common pea;then a small flat bean much used with rice, a box ofwhich comes next; take care that you dont treadupon that fine large lettuce or upon those egg-plants. A diagram was enclosed in In Mexico 6i But what is that man doing? See, he has a kind ofbag, which seems filled with moss, and he is takingsomething out of it and opening the moss which is madeinto a kind of ball; they are eggs which he has broughtto market on the back of a donkey. Each ball holdsan egg carefully wrapped. See, there is another manwho is opening com shucks in which he has fastenedhis eggs. Most of them in this and the next line have nearlythe same things; here is a vegetable something likethe egg-plant in its form, but that it is flattened; it hasa deep crease at one end, and a piece projecting out likea tongue; the plant has small points on it which do notstick you; this plant is cooked like the egg-plant, butI think it is much better. I have tried to get the seed,but was told that the fruit itself was planted, and thatthe part looking like a tongue will grow into a vineon which some fifty or sixty of these will grow. I willtry to take one to
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