. Where to spend the winter months. A birdseye view of a trip to Mexico, via Havana . per day. There are always many cargadoras on the look out at the mole. These porters will seize your baggage sepa-rately, each taking a light charge, andyou will be obliged In pay any onewho renders you the slightest this reason it Avill be advisable toplace your entire baggage in charge ofthe boatman and agree u])nii a price. On leaving Yera Cruz lor ihe city ofMexico, your baggage will be scut fromyour hotel, and you will procure yourchecks and tickets, (the fare being $16for first class, $12 fo
. Where to spend the winter months. A birdseye view of a trip to Mexico, via Havana . per day. There are always many cargadoras on the look out at the mole. These porters will seize your baggage sepa-rately, each taking a light charge, andyou will be obliged In pay any onewho renders you the slightest this reason it Avill be advisable toplace your entire baggage in charge ofthe boatman and agree u])nii a price. On leaving Yera Cruz lor ihe city ofMexico, your baggage will be scut fromyour hotel, and you will procure yourchecks and tickets, (the fare being $16for first class, $12 for second class and$8 for the third class). The trains leaveat J1 P. M. The left hand side of thecar is the best for sight-seeing. Takeupon your arm a heavy overcoat orshawl, as you will need it upon reachingthe high lands. After having reached our hotel andmade the necessary disposition with re-^iv^^^-^^g^^^l to o^ baggage, &c., the best thingr^.?-»;■-■- ---■■ ^-^ to do is to take a bath; there is nothing PUBLIC POKTER. SO invigorating and pleasant as a bath. 23 after a sea voyage. We enjoy ours in a bath tul) constructed of blue andother colored glazed tiles, after which we are prepared to take in every inter-esting and novel phase of our new quarters. Looking from our window upand down the avenue upon which our hotel is situated, we behold a singulardiversity of architecture of color and material; old fashioned cupolas appearon many houses and tiled roofs are the vogue. There are many porches, andwhite or colored curtains float upon them as screens to hide a Mexican maid-ens blush or the inquiring glance of an admiring stranger. Along the streets perambulate strange men of stranger liabits, tlieir movements are adapted to the climate, they move about quite leisurely and neverappear to be behind time. Strings of mules laden with all manner of mer-chandise or driven in carts, the sides of which are composed of netting, lenda busy action to the scene; the drive
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