Mexico to-day, a country with a great future; and a glance at the prehistoric remains and antiquities of the Montezumas (1883) (14596076368)

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Title: Mexico to-day, a country with a great future; and a glance at the prehistoric remains and antiquities of the Montezumas
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Brocklehurst, Thomas Unett
Subjects: Mexico -- Antiquities Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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eva,or housekeeper, of some swell Mexican family, to the Indianwoman with the inevitable child strapped across her back in herrehozo. Each class of article exposed for sale has its own quarterin the market—meat, fruit, fish, vegetables being in separateplaces. Vendors who are not the possessors of stands sj^read outtheir wares on mats, utterly regardless of space; and you willfind yourself treading on the stock-in-trade (the owner utteringshrill cries of warning) unless you keep a pretty good look out.Indian women stretched on mats indolently watch their wares,red and green pepper pods, granaclas, melons, pa)^aya, camote,cMrimoya, chico zaijote, cliiote (fruit resembling a hedgehog),jicami, and fifty other Mexican fruits, whose names I could notnote down; the omission, however, is not of grave importance,for very few of those I have mentioned are worth eating.Dealers in fried meats dole out their commodities to hungrycustomers. TorttUa venders do a roaring business. Indian PLATE IX.
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THE MARKET. (page 52. CHAP. vir. MARKETS. 53 maidens, with great coops of chickens on their backs, and adozen live fowls hanging with their heads downwards from theirwaist-belts, jostle past you, while a donkey places his pointed,unshod foot on your favourite corn. The duenas drive hardbargains in the shrillest possible tones. Rancheros, in gay andgaudy sarapes or ponchos, whift cigarettes, while hucksteringover some desired object, which they will hang on the saddlepommel of their mustangs, patiently waiting for them at thegates. Look out for the sticks that support the awnings cover-ing the stalls, or they will poke you in the eye; look out forthe merchandise spread beneath your feet; look out for a peckfrom the beak of some half-strangled turkey; look out for thefat little happy Indian babies, mixed up with everything; lookout for discarded, but still lighted, ends of cigarettes which arethrown carelessly about; and dont look out for the bad smells. Most things are extraordinarily