The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . der is re-echoed from all these peaks, from all these pinnacles, to die in the distant ravines, one understands how a primitive race peopled Popocatepetl with giants and evil spirits, whose agonies in their prison-house found expression in these convulsions of nature. But if at this season we have a succession of thunderstorms and torrential rains, if the sky is overcast at night and white exhalations rise from the plain, the mornings are bright and wonderfully calm. The Municipa
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . der is re-echoed from all these peaks, from all these pinnacles, to die in the distant ravines, one understands how a primitive race peopled Popocatepetl with giants and evil spirits, whose agonies in their prison-house found expression in these convulsions of nature. But if at this season we have a succession of thunderstorms and torrential rains, if the sky is overcast at night and white exhalations rise from the plain, the mornings are bright and wonderfully calm. The Municipality took measures some time since to have i6o The Ancient Cities of the New World. Amecameca, which numbers 1,500 inhabitants, hghted withpetroleum, their finances precluding gas; but, alas! they hadcounted without the rateros, who on the very first night spreadover the city, put out simultaneously all the lamps and carriedthem ofi. But I hear some one ask, what is a ratero ? A raterois ubiquitous and essentially an American institution. His strengthas a thief lies in being a member of a very long firm. He is. HACIENDA OF UOMACOCO. always to be found in crowds, whether in the market-place,church, or theatre; he penetrates ill-closed houses, whence hetakes anything valuable ; he strips railway carriages of theirfixtures, and railways of their wooden rails —the largest beams arenot safe from his grasp ; horses and cattle are frequently drivenfrr)m on(; district to Ije sold in another by the ratero. Rateroshardly c-vcr miss a party crossing the Cordilleras, and they takecare to be in sufficient numbers to ensure victory. It was a raterowho carried off Julians box, and a ratero had eased me of /20. Mountain Exploration. i6i The immediate attraction of Amecameca is Monte-Sacro, avolcanic hill, fire-rent, rising from the centre of the town to aheight of 325 feet. There is a grotto which was turned intoa hermitage at the time of the Conquest. The place soon Eicquiredgreat celebrity
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