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Title: Old Mexico and her lost provinces; a journey in Mexico, southern California, and Arizona, by way of Cuba
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Bishop, William Henry, 1847-1928
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel California -- Description and travel Arizona -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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or, the one in the cabinet, theother in the field, made an end of the languishingstruggle. This may have been, however, merely the story of thediscontented, which should be taken with a grain of salt.It is true, on the one hand, that the area of the island isnot great, and the despatch of forces from Spain easy; theinsurgents never held a town, and received no aid worthmentioning from without. But, on the other hand, therewere no railroads of consequence, the ordinary roads werewretched, and there was the wild manigiia^ as it is called,half forest, half swamp, with which a good part of theisland has abounded from the date of Christopher Co-lumbus down. It was in the wtanigua that the insur-gents found refuge from pursuit. It so happened that the Yille de Brest was delayed inher coming, and I had six or seven days of leisure inthe island. I employed part of it in a run down to Ma-tanzas, the second city. I saw on the way the manigiia^which is sentimentally pretty, from a distance, with
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BY WAY OF CUBA AXD THE SPAXISU MAIX. 11 masses of laurel, cypress, and graceful palms; but withinit is a thicket of intertwisted cactus, thorns, and creep-ers, through which a way must be opened with the morchete, a formidable half knife, half cleaver, carried by thepeasants for general uses on the plantations, and w^hichserved also as their weapon in the strife. There was an International Exhibition in progress atMatanzas, easily rivalled by almost any American countyfair. The railway ride of three hours and a half by aram-shackle train, run by a Chinese engineer, was hot anddusty, but how well repaid by the first deep draughts ofsatisfaction in understanding at last the heart of a trop-ical country! There was the thatched cabin, shaded bythe broad-leafed banana. It was like Paul and Vir-ginia. Where was the faithful negro Domingo? Thehedges were of cactus and dwarf pine-apple. There weregroves of cocoa-nuts like apple-orchards with us, and un-know^n fruits too numerous to mention. I

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