. A white umbrella in Mexico. he rising Cross. Montezuma,that the fires of his temples had forevergone out, and that henceforward his peo-ple were slaves. Sitting here alone on this stone parapet,watching the fading sunlight and the longcreeping shadows and comparing Mexicoand Spain of to-day with what we knowto be true of the Moors, and what wehope was true of the Aztecs, and being ina reflective frame of mind, it becomes aquestion with me whether the civilizedworld ought not to have mingled theirtears with both potentates. The delight-ful historian sums it up in this way: — Spain has the une
. A white umbrella in Mexico. he rising Cross. Montezuma,that the fires of his temples had forevergone out, and that henceforward his peo-ple were slaves. Sitting here alone on this stone parapet,watching the fading sunlight and the longcreeping shadows and comparing Mexicoand Spain of to-day with what we knowto be true of the Moors, and what wehope was true of the Aztecs, and being ina reflective frame of mind, it becomes aquestion with me whether the civilizedworld ought not to have mingled theirtears with both potentates. The delight-ful historian sums it up in this way: — Spain has the unenviable credit ofhaving destroyed two great civilizations. Full of these reveries, and with thequestion undecided, I retraced my stepspast the boy sentinels, down the long hill,through the gardens and cypresses, andout into the broad road skirting the great On the Paseo i2y aqueduct of Bucareli. There I hailed acab, and whirled into the city brilliantwith lights, and so home to my lodgingsoverlooking the old convent CHAPTER VIII. PALM SUNDAY IN PUEBLA DE LOS AN-GELES. Some one hundred miles from the cityof Mexico, and within twice that distanceof Vera Cruz and the sea, and some seventhousand feet up into the clear, crisp air,lies the city of Puebla. The streets arebroad and clean, the plazas filled withtrees and rich in flowers, the markets ex-ceptionally interesting. Above this charm-ing city tower, like huge sentinels, the twogreat volcanoes Popocatapetl and Iztacci-huatl. The legend of its founding is quaintand somewhat characteristic ; moreover,there is no shadow of doubt as to itstruth. In Puebla de los Angeles i2g The good Fray Julian Garces, the firstconsecrated bishop of the Catholic Churchin Mexico, conceived the most praise-worthy plan of founding, somewhere be-tween the coast and the city of Mexico, ahaven of refuge and safe resting-place forweary travellers. Upon one eventfulnight, when his mind was filled with thisnoble resolve, he beheld a lovely plain,
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