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A PUBLIC GARDEN IN TROPICAL MEXICO: VIEW AT COLIMA . . . . . . . . 184
THE VALLEY OF MEXICO: THE GREAT DRAINAGE CANAL . . . . . . . . . . 188
THE CATHEDRAL OF THE CITY OF MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
BULL-FIGHT IN THE CITY OF MEXICO, SHOWING THE SPECTATORS OF THE "SOL," THE PICADORES, AND THE ENTERING BULL . . . . . . . . . . . 194
MEXICAN STREET SCENE: A PULQUE SHOP WITH ARTISTICALLY-PAINTED EXTERIOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
MEXICAN ARTILLERY: A WAYSIDE ENCAMPMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
CITY OF GUADALAJARA: INTERIOR OF THE CATHEDRAL . . . . . . . . . . 208
A TOBACCO-PRODUCING HACIENDA: STATE OF VERA CRUZ . . . . . . . . . 213
MEXICAN PEON LIFE: TYPICAL VILLAGE MARKET-PLACE . . . . . . . . . 215
THE PACIFIC COAST ZONE: COCOA-NUT PALMS AT COLIMA . . . . . . . . 230
LIFE AND TRAVEL IN MEXICO: MULES, PEON, AND CACTUS . . . . . . . . 235
NATIVE WOMEN OF TEHUANTEPEC: ORDINARY DRESS AND CHURCH-GOING COSTUMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
THE PACIFIC COAST ZONE: THE PLAZA AND ENVIRONS OF THE CITY OF COLIMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
MEXICAN ARTIFICIAL HARBOURS ON THE PACIFIC COAST: THE NEW PORT WORKS OF SALINA CRUZ, TERMINUS OF THE TEHUANTEPEC RAILWAY . . . . 306
GENERAL VIEW OF THE CITY OF MONTERREY, STATE OF NUEVO LEON, UPON THE GREAT PLATEAU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
TYPICAL SIDE STREET IN MEXICAN VILLAGE: THE TOWN OF AMECA AND CLOUD-EFFECT ON POPOCATEPETL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
STATE OF VERA CRUZ: THE BARRANCA OR RAVINE OF MITLAC; VIEW ON THE MEXICAN RAILWAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 (Far below in the valley is seen the bridge depicted at p. 340.)
VERA CRUZ: SHIPPING IN THE NEW HARBOUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
BRITISH ENGINEERING WORK IN MEXICO: BUILDING A BREAKWATER . . . . 336
THE MITLAC RAVINE: VIEW ON THE MEXICAN RAILWAY . . . . . . . . . . 340
BRIDGES OVER THE ATOYAC RIVER: MEXICAN RAILWAY . . . . . . . . . . 342
THE SEAPORT OF VERA CRUZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
NEW PORT OF SALINA CRUZ, ON THE PACIFIC: THE GREAT DRY DOCK . . . 346 (See also page 306.)
The Author is indebted for some of the photographs reproduced in this book to The Mexican Financial Agency, Senor Camacho; The Mexican Information Bureau, Senor Barriga; The Mexican Vera Cruz Railway Company, Ltd.; Messrs. S. Pearson and Sons, Ltd.; The London Bank of Mexico and South America, Ltd.; Arthur H. Enock, Esq.; "Modern Mexico"; "Mexico at Chicago," Senor Manuel Caballero; Holmes: Ancient Cities of Mexico; and others.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
HISTORY
The history of Mexico at the time of the Conquest rests upon an accurate basis; the five letters of Cortes to the Spanish Emperor, Carlos V. These have been recently retranslated into, and published in, English in two excellent volumes:
The Letters of Cortes to Charles V. F. C. MacNutt. G. P. Putnam's Sons. London. 1908.
The most famous book on the Conquest is that of Prescott, the American historian, and this never loses its charm, although to the traveller who knows the country it may, at times, seem somewhat highly drawn.
Prescott's Conquest of Mexico. 3 vols. London. 1845.
The writers which, after Cortes, were the participators in the Conquest or contemporary therewith, and upon whose writings all other accounts are based, are those of:
Bernal Diaz, Author of the Verdadera Historia de la Conquista. 1858.
Ixtlilochitl, Aztec historian.
Other famous contemporary writers whose works also furnish material for historians were:
Bartolome de las Casas, Francisco Lopez de Gomara, Gonzalo Oviedo y Valdez, Bernardino de Sahagun, Motolinia, Peter Martyr, Antonio de