Report of the Naval committee to the House of representatives, August, 1850, in favor of the establishment of a line of mail steamships to the western coast of Africa, and thence via the Mediterranean to London; . ed by pigs and poultry. Thenatives do not eat meat half a dozen times a year. A fewwild fruits are added to their humble fare of tortillas, andthat suffices. A mat serves for a bed and a blanket for anovercoat, and the native seems very content. Theysupply the towns with poultry, charcoal, nuts, baskets,pottery, and a few vegetables; often walking twenty-five orthiity miles over hill
Report of the Naval committee to the House of representatives, August, 1850, in favor of the establishment of a line of mail steamships to the western coast of Africa, and thence via the Mediterranean to London; . ed by pigs and poultry. Thenatives do not eat meat half a dozen times a year. A fewwild fruits are added to their humble fare of tortillas, andthat suffices. A mat serves for a bed and a blanket for anovercoat, and the native seems very content. Theysupply the towns with poultry, charcoal, nuts, baskets,pottery, and a few vegetables; often walking twenty-five orthiity miles over hills and plains with a load of over ahundred pounds on their backs, in order to reach a marketwhere a dollar, or at most two, is received for their two orthree days journey. Most of the money made by thenatives is paid to the Catholic priests for pseudo-indulgen-ces. On the following day we returned to the City ofMexico. The avifauna of Toluca was identical with that ofPopocatepetl. Warblers, robins, bluebirds, hawks, creep-ers, and wrens predominated. Insects were also numerous,but mollusks scarce. On the 25th of April we again left the City of Mexicofor Amecameca, this time to ascend, and to take barometric.
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