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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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dthe tradition of their race. Followed to their homes,they are found to dwell, among the ruined walls of theoutskirts, in adobe huts which can have changed littlesince the time of the Conquest. These genuine Aztecs have peculiarly soft, pleasantvoices, in contrast with the Spanish voice, which is aptto be harsh. They are shiftless and squalid, but theirmanners are above their surroundings. It is a favoriteway with the Mexican to say, This is your house; andI have had said to me on being introduced, Well, now,remember! number so-and-so, such a street, is yourhouse. Having looked into one of these Indian abodes, andasked an elderly woman, by way of making talk, if itwere hers, she replied, Yes, Senor, and yours also. Neither in the Zocalo nor the Alameda (a park, whichholds somewhat the position of the Common, in Boston),are there trees with the hoary antiquity one might expectin such time-honored places. But it appears that the set-ting out of the trees, and the formation of the Zocalo
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• THE CAPITAL. 45 entirely, is of modern date, the work of Maximilian, amonarch who, in his short, ill-fated reign, had manyexcellent projects. The Zocalo is occasionally allowed to be enclosed, andan admission-fee charged, for select festivities. The ora-tions were delivered there, for instance, on the nationalfestival of the 5th of May. When I first arrived a flow-er-show was in progress. I have never seen anythingmore charming of the sort. Our florists might get ascore of new ideas for the arrangement of bouquets.Strawberries were introduced into some for effects ofcolor. Little streamers with gallant mottoes floated fromothers. There were lanterns, and birds in cages. A mil-itary band played, and people promenaded—dandies withsilver-braided hats, stout duennas, and fathers of families,and slender, lithe senoritas, wearing the graceful mantillainstead of the Paris bonnet. In front of the Zocalo a permanent flower market isheld every morning, which is almost as pleasing. Tramway

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