On the Mexican highlands, with a passing glimpse of Cuba . e savage aroused within their hearts! 85 VIIIFrom Pullman Car to Mule-back MiCHOACAN, Mexico, Novemher 25th. After the bullfight we had difficulty in find-ing a cocha to take us to the railway station. Infact, we could not get one. We were compelledto depend upon cargadores, who carried our trunksand bags upon their backs, while we jostled alongthe crowded sidewalks. And here, I might re-mark, that there is no such thing as a right-of-wayfor the footfarer on either street or turn to the right or left, just as it may bemost
On the Mexican highlands, with a passing glimpse of Cuba . e savage aroused within their hearts! 85 VIIIFrom Pullman Car to Mule-back MiCHOACAN, Mexico, Novemher 25th. After the bullfight we had difficulty in find-ing a cocha to take us to the railway station. Infact, we could not get one. We were compelledto depend upon cargadores, who carried our trunksand bags upon their backs, while we jostled alongthe crowded sidewalks. And here, I might re-mark, that there is no such thing as a right-of-wayfor the footfarer on either street or turn to the right or left, just as it may bemost convenient and so does your neighbor. Youcross a street at your peril, and you pray vigor-ously to the saints when you are run down. We left Mexico City about five oclock in theevening, taking the narrow gauge National Rail-way to Acambaro and Patzcuaro, where horsesand a guide were to be awaiting us, and whencewe would cross the highlands of the Tierra Friaand finally plunge into the remote depths of theTierra Caliente, along the lower course of the 86. THE TREE WHERE CORTEZ WEPTEL NOCHE TRISTE From Pullman Car to Mule-back Rio de las Balsas, where it forms the boundaryline between the states of Michoacan and Guererro,on Its way to the Pacific. As we departed from the city, we passedthrough extensive fields of maguey, and beganclimbing the heavy grade which would lift us upsome four thousand feet ere we should descendInto the valley of Toluca, more lofty, but no lessfertile than the basin of Anahuac. Before wecrept up the mountain very far, darkness de-scended precipitately upon us, for there Is no twi-light in these southern latitudes. We were at Acambaro for breakfast, and allthe morning traversed a rolling, cultivated, tim-bered country much like the blue grass countiesof Greenbrier and Monroe In West we travelled through some of the loveliestlandscapes In all Mexico. This Is a region oftemperate highlands amidst the tropics, so high Inaltitude lies the land,
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