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Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . , in ahammock, in a palm-thatched hut, on the Acapulco trail,told me of a son wdio had gone to San Francisco twentyyears before and become a carpenter there. He had for-gotten now, she heard, even how to speak liis nativelanguage. The Latin race seems to have been especially attractedto the country of a mild climate and original traditionslike their own. But German and Scatidinavian namestoo on the sign-boards—Eussian Ivanovich and Abramo-vich, and Hungarian Haraszthy—show that no one blo
Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba . , in ahammock, in a palm-thatched hut, on the Acapulco trail,told me of a son wdio had gone to San Francisco twentyyears before and become a carpenter there. He had for-gotten now, she heard, even how to speak liis nativelanguage. The Latin race seems to have been especially attractedto the country of a mild climate and original traditionslike their own. But German and Scatidinavian namestoo on the sign-boards—Eussian Ivanovich and Abramo-vich, and Hungarian Haraszthy—show that no one bloodor influence has exclusive sway. There appears to bean unusually free intermingling and giving in marriageamong these various components. They are less chmnishthan with us. Lady Wortley Montagu remarked, at Con-stantinople, some hundred years ago, a simihir fusion,and believed it a reason for a debased and mongrel a very different class of blood mingles here fromthat of Orientals at Constantinople. Our much morecheerful theory is, that we are to combine the best qual- SAN FRANCISCO. 331. (?imB
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Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectmexicod, bookyear1883