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Page 471 - As we cautiously threaded our way between sandbank and shoal before coming to anchor, we passed a broad, triangular space of shallow water, lashed into seething waves by wind and current, where, a few feet under the surface, lies what was once the busy area of populous streets. Meanwhile, the breakers, not content with the mischief already done, continue ceaselessly tearing away the adjoining land, bit by bit. Right in front, a large house, left an empty shell, without doors or window-frames, by...
Page 126 - trust " idea ; while his sons are too often dudes and spendthrifts. lays the foundation for permanent wealth ; for everywhere, the world over, the man who gets the lands and holds on to them is the wealthy man. Speculators and financiers come and go like bubbles on a river, but the landed proprietor keeps a permanent clinch on humanity. There is one check to the growth of Spanish influence in Mexico, and that is the climate. All Europeans, no matter what their nationality, become physically modified...
Page 184 - Finally, at ten minutes to eleven, without premonition of any kind, the earth began to heave and tremble with such fearful force that in ten seconds the entire city was prostrated. The crashing of houses and churches stunned the ears of the terrified inhabitants, while a cloud of dust from the falling ruins enveloped them in a pall of impenetrable darkness. Not a drop of water could be got to relieve the half-choked and suffocating, for the wells and fountains were filled up or made dry.
Page 311 - ... monopolist; and it furnishes a sufficient answer to those who imagine that a European race, living by its own labor, cannot exist where 80° is the average height of Fahrenheit's thermometer. With the gradual diffusion of education, of which there is a lamentable deficiency, much of the grosser part of the character of the peasantry may be progressively removed.
Page 185 - Francisco crushed the episcopal oratory and part of the palace. The church of Santo Domingo was buried beneath its towers, and the college of the Assumption was entirely ruined. The new and beautiful edifice of the university was demolished, the church of the Merced separated in the centre, and its walls fell outward to the ground. Of the private houses a few were left standing, but all were rendered uninhabitable. It is worthy of remark that the walls left standing are old ones ; all those of modern...
Page 475 - Ill-modelled trunks and disproportioned limbs are, in fact, as rare among them as they are common among some lightercomplexioned races. Their colour is, in general, very dark, and gives no token of the gradual tendency to assume a fairer tint, that may be observed among the descendants of negroes resident in more northerly latitudes. Their hair, too, is as curly as that of any Niam-niam, or Darfooree chief, or native of Senegal.
Page 265 - ... have been ascribed to Aztec influences, or even to the Aztecs themselves, who are now known to have ranged from Nicaragua into the adjacent parts of the present Costa Rica territory. Some of the barrows visited by Colonel Church in the district east of Guapiles are 100 feet long, 75 wide, and 1 5 high.
Page 474 - Bush negroes of Surinam may rank among the best specimens of the Ethiopian type. The men are often six feet and more in height, with well-developed limbs and pleasing open countenance ; and the women in every physical respect are, to say the least, worthy of their mates. Ill-modelled trunks and disproportioned limbs are, in fact, as rare among them as they are common among some lightercomplexioned races. Their colour is, in general, very dark, and gives no token of the gradual tendency to assume...
Page 405 - Orient ; they offer beautiful audacities of color contrast, and the full-dress coiffure, above all, is most striking. It is an immense Madras handkerchief, which is folded about the head with admirable art, like a turban, one bright end, pushed through at the top in front, being left sticking up like a plume. Then this turban, always full of...
Page 411 - ... recent English traveller. It is reached from the port of La Brea, which place itself is everywhere surrounded by pitch. The very ship anchors in pitch, the passengers disembark on a pitch wharf, pitch lies heaped up far and wide in the harbour ; in whatever direction the eyes are turned they light on nothing but pitch ; pitch, and the current market price of pitch, are the one burden of conversation.