The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . The view from the top of the hillis very fine and extensive, and the ascent has been madeboth easy and pleasant by a winding road planted with cypresstrees to the north, and to the south side with ilexes of enormoussize. We were detained here by the weather, which was simplyabominable, and also by the difficulty of procuring saddle-horses, mules to carry our baggage, and men inured by longexperience to live and work in this rarefied atmosphere. It was not without a feeling of dee
The ancient cities of the New World : being travels and explorations in Mexico and Central America from 1857-1882 . The view from the top of the hillis very fine and extensive, and the ascent has been madeboth easy and pleasant by a winding road planted with cypresstrees to the north, and to the south side with ilexes of enormoussize. We were detained here by the weather, which was simplyabominable, and also by the difficulty of procuring saddle-horses, mules to carry our baggage, and men inured by longexperience to live and work in this rarefied atmosphere. It was not without a feeling of deep satisfaction that wesaw our last mule and our last man loaded ready to two best men are brothers, both of whom have been M l62 The Ancient Cities of the New World. employed in the sulphur-mines of Popocatepetl, one as fore-man for the last eight-and-twenty years, and the other evenlonger. The five remaining Indians are also volcaneros,accustomed to live at an altitude of 13,000 to 17,550 feetabove the level of the sea. At last every man is at his post, and we begin slowly theascent of the VOLCANEKOb (miners)
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