Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras

Tramping Through Mexico,
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Title: Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras Being the
Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond
Author: Harry A. Franck

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TRAMPING THROUGH MEXICO, GUATEMALA AND
HONDURAS
Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond
By Harry A. Franck
Author Of "A Vagabond Journey Around The World," "Zone
Policeman 88," etc.
Illustrated With Photographs By The Author
To The Mexican Peon With Sincerest Wishes For His Ultimate
Emancipation

FOREWORD
This simple story of a journey southward grew up of itself. Planning a
comprehensive exploration of South America, I concluded to reach that
continent by some less monotonous route than the steamship's track;
and herewith is presented the unadorned narrative of what I saw on the
way,--the day-by-day experiences in rambling over bad roads and into
worse lodging-places that infallibly befall all who venture afield south
of the Rio Grande. The present account joins up with that of five
months on the Canal Zone, already published, clearing the stage for a
larger forthcoming volume on South America giving the concrete

results of four unbroken years of Latin-American travel.
Harry A. Franck. New York, May, 1916.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I INTO THE COOLER SOUTH
II TRAMPING THE BYWAYS
III IN A MEXICAN MINE
IV ROUND ABOUT LAKE CHAPALA
V ON THE TRAIL IN MICHOACÁN
VI TENOCHTITLAN OF TO-DAY
VII TROPICAL MEXICO
VIII HURRYING THROUGH GUATEMALA
IX THE UPS AND DOWNS OF HONDURAS
X THE CITY OF THE SILVER HILLS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
A street of Puebla, Mexico, and the Soledad Church.
The first glimpse of Mexico. Looking across the Rio Grande at Laredo.
A corner of Monterey from my hotel window.
A peon restaurant in the market-place of San Luís Potosí.
A market woman of San Luís Potosí.
Some sold potatoes no larger than nuts.
A policeman and an arriero.
The former home, in Dolores Hidalgo, of the Mexican "Father of his
Country".
Rancho del Capulín, where I ended the first day of tramping in Mexico.
View of the city of Guanajuato.
Fellow-roadsters in Mexico.
Some of the pigeon-holes of Guanajuato's cemetery.
A pulque street-stand and one of its clients.
Prisoners washing in the patio of the former "Alóndiga".
Drilling with compressed-air drills in a mine "heading".
As each car passed I snatched a sample of its ore.
Working a "heading" by hand.
Peon miners being searched for stolen ore as they leave the mine.
Bricks of gold and silver ready for shipment. Each is worth something
like $1250.
In a natural amphitheater of Guanajuato the American miners of the

region gather on Sundays for a game of baseball.
Some of the peons under my charge about to leave the mine.
The easiest way to carry a knapsack--on a peon's back.
The ore thieves of Peregrina being led away to prison.
One of Mexico's countless "armies".
Vendors of strawberries at the station of Irapuato.
The wall of Guadalajara penitentiary against which prisoners are shot.
The liver-shaking stagecoach from Atequisa to Chapala.
Lake Chapala from the estate of Ribero Castellanos.
The head farmer of the estate under an aged fig-tree.
A Mexican village.
Making glazed floor tiles on a Mexican estate.
Vast seas of Indian corn stretch to pine-clad hills, while around them
are guard-shacks at frequent intervals.
Interior of a Mexican hut at cooking time.
Fall plowing near Patzcuaro.
Modern transportation along the ancient highway from Tzintzuntzan,
the former Tarascan capital.
In the church of ancient Tzintzuntzan is a