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CONTENTS.
| LETTER THE THIRTIETH. | |
| Christmas day — Kalends and mass — Amateur performances — Solo — Posadas — Wandering of the Holy Family — Nacimiento — Crowded party — French cooks — Mexican cook — State of household — New Year's day — Mass — Dirtiness of the churches, &c. — Comparisons — Private chapels — English club — Preparations for journey, | 37 |
| LETTER THE THIRTY-FIRST. | |
| Leave Mexico — Cuernavaca — Tierra Caliente — Atlacamulco — Orange groves — Sugar cane — Annual produce — Will of Cortes — Description — Coffee plantation — Scorpions — List of venomous reptiles — Acapansingo — Doubts and difficulties — A decision, | 47 |
| LETTER THE THIRTY-SECOND. | |
| Leave Atlacamulco — Assemble by star-light — Balmy atmosphere — Flowers and trees of the tropics — The formidable barrancas — Breakfast under the trees — Force of the sun — Meacatlan — Hospitality — Profitable estate — Leave Meacatlan — Beautiful village — Musical bells — Ride by moonlight — Sugar fires — Cocoyotla — Old gentleman — Supper — Orairge trees and cocoas — Delicious water — Sugar estates — A scorpion — Set off for the cave — Morning ride — Dangerous path, | 58 |
| LETTER THE THIRTY-THIRD. | |
| Cave of Cacahuamilpa — Superstition — Long-bearded goat — Portal — Vestibule — Fantastic forms — Breakfast — Pine torches — Noble hall — Stalactites and stalagmites — Egyptian pyramids — Double gallery — Wonderful formations — Corridor — Frozen landscape — Amphitheatre — World in chaos — Skeleton — Wax lights — Hall of angels — Return — Distant light — Indian — Alcalde — Cautlamilpas — Rancho — Return to Cocoyotla — Chapel — Meacatlan — Eclipse of the moon — Benighted travellers — Indian village — El Puente— Return to Atlacamulco, | 68 |
