An artillery officer in the Mexican war, 1846-7; . dirty cloth from the top of the basket nearher, tortillas made of com soaked in lime mashedby a roller on a large flat stone prepared for that pur-pose, and then baked. She is too dirty, or at allevents the cloth which keeps her tortillas hot is toodirty—let us pass on. On the next row among the onions, cabbages,tomatoes, large and small (I have not seen any of thebeautiful golden tomatoes here), radishes (very large,and good), turnips, squashes, peas, carrots, you mayperchance see some of your old acquaintances, but sodisguised that you will
An artillery officer in the Mexican war, 1846-7; . dirty cloth from the top of the basket nearher, tortillas made of com soaked in lime mashedby a roller on a large flat stone prepared for that pur-pose, and then baked. She is too dirty, or at allevents the cloth which keeps her tortillas hot is toodirty—let us pass on. On the next row among the onions, cabbages,tomatoes, large and small (I have not seen any of thebeautiful golden tomatoes here), radishes (very large,and good), turnips, squashes, peas, carrots, you mayperchance see some of your old acquaintances, but sodisguised that you will scarce recognize them; thoseshining sleek objects are sweet potatoes, boiled andsweetened by some sugaring process, and those crooked^mammoth pods, six and eight inches long, are saidto be ochre. I have not seen an uncooked one in market. In the next row, you find fruits, baskets of pears,mostly green, indifferent peaches, apples and cherries,Mamaias in abundance, small apricots, sapotes bothgreen and blue (neither good for anything), alligator. In Mexico 205 pear, and, for a rarity, here is a woman who has somemushrooms. Under that awning, you find oranges, limes, musk-melons, watermelons (six cents a slice), goats cheese,eggs, chocolate makers, coarse wooden spoons, etc.,and pears and apricots which you can buy cheaperfrom the market women farther back. Passing a little higher up in this row, and aroundthe fountain in the centre of the square, you find cook-ing utensils, earthen and iron, and near by, the chickens,turkeys, and pigeons. Those piles of white chalky-looking substance are lime, used in cooking, etc. OnThursday, the great market day, you find piles of beansof all colors and sizes. Flowers are also seen frequentlyin Market—pinks appear to be favorites. I haveomitted bananas and plantains, cocoanuts and pine-apples. The cocoanut is very fine, but I think theplantain the best fruit I have seen. I have also omittedthe fruit of the cactus, two kinds, green and purp
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