. Where to spend the winter months. A birdseye view of a trip to Mexico, via Havana . w capped summit of the extinct volcano at Orizaba appears beforeus, and yet we are 60 Elites fiom sight of the coast. This majestic apparitionseems to form a part of the heavens, its hoary locks suggest almost an ante-diluvian origin; as we approach, it appears to rise higher and higher in theclouds in a truly imperial manner, and one cannot refrain from being deeplyimpressed with the comparative insignificance of its surroundings. Pour hours more and we perceive in the distant horizon the first outlinesof th
. Where to spend the winter months. A birdseye view of a trip to Mexico, via Havana . w capped summit of the extinct volcano at Orizaba appears beforeus, and yet we are 60 Elites fiom sight of the coast. This majestic apparitionseems to form a part of the heavens, its hoary locks suggest almost an ante-diluvian origin; as we approach, it appears to rise higher and higher in theclouds in a truly imperial manner, and one cannot refrain from being deeplyimpressed with the comparative insignificance of its surroundings. Pour hours more and we perceive in the distant horizon the first outlinesof the Yera Cruz coast. Soon we will be in port; the passengers appear wellpleased. The last moments of a journey are always attended with who have been sick are promptly convalescent and those who have en-joyed the trip are also well pleased to change the life at sea for one in which thepleasant anticipations of new scenes and strange enjoyments invite bright spec-ulation. Curiosity is one of mans most salient characteristics and a change ofscene is food lor inquiry. 18. iSTllEET SCENF IN \EliA CKLl/. 19 Tlio port ^of Vera Cruz is Inow distinctly seen. Coral reefs extend ina parallel line with the coast directly in front of tiie city, so tliat we are oblig-ed to enter tiie port from the North or South. Not far from the shore wo ob-serve a small island, it is called Sacrijico. Attacheilto this island is a romancefamiliar to those wiio remomber Prescotts conquest of Mexico by Cortez; herethe victims of idolatry and barbarism met their death in a somewhat extra-ordinary manner. Upon a certain day in each year a youth, selected for hisbeauty and pliysique, accompanied by his four wives, chosen from the love-liest Aztec flowers of female propriety, were conducted to the island priest, who combined the disagreeable attributes of an executioner withthose of a consoler, presented himself He was clothed in blood stained gar-ments ; with fiendish dexterity thiss
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