The Shrine of Guadalupe.--Priestly Miracles.--A Remarkable
Spring.--The Chapels about the Hill.--A Singular Votive
Offering.--Church of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe.--Costly
Decorations.--A Campo Santo.--Tomb of Santa Anna.--Strange
Contrasts.--Guadalupe-Hidalgo.--The Twelve Shrines on the
Causeway.--The Viga Canal.--The Floating Islands.--Indian
Gamblers.--Vegetable Market.--Flower Girls.--The "Noche-
Triste" Tree.--Ridiculous Signs.--Queer Titles.--Floral
Festival 205

CHAPTER XII.

Castle of Chapultepec.--"Hill of the Grasshopper."--Montezuma's
Retreat.--Palace of the Aztec Kings.--West Point of Mexico.
--Battles of Molino del Rey and Churubusco.--The Mexican White
House.--High above Sea Level.--Village of Tacubaya.--Antique
Carvings.--Ancient Toluca.--The Maguey.--Fine Scenery.--Cima.
--Snowy Peaks.--Leon d'Oro.--The Bull-Ring and Cockpit.--A
Literary Institution.--The Coral Tree.--Ancient Pyramids.--
Pachuca.--Silver Product of the Mines.--A Cornish Colony.--
Native Cabins.--Indian Endurance 220

CHAPTER XIII.

Puebla, the Sacred City.--General Forey.--Battle-Ground.--View of
the City.--Priestly Miracles.--The Cathedral.--Snow-Crowned
Mountains.--A Cleanly Capital.--The Plaza Mayor.--A Typical
Picture.--The Old Seller of Rosaries.--Mexican Ladies.--Palm
Sunday.--Church Gala Day.--Education--Confiscation of Church
Property.--A Curious Arch.--A Doll Image.--Use of Glazed
Tiles.--Onyx a Staple Production.--Fine Work of Native Indian
Women.--State of Puebla full of Rich Resources.--A Dynamite
Bomb.--The Key of the Capital 241

CHAPTER XIV.

Ancient Cholula.--A Grand Antiquity.--The Cheops of Mexico.--
Traditions relating to the Pyramid.--The Toltecs.--Cholula of
To-Day.--Comprehensive View.--A Modern Tower of Babel.--
Multiplicity of Ruins.--Cortez's Exaggerations.--Sacrifices of
Human Beings.--The Hateful Inquisition.--A Wholesale Murderous
Scheme.--Unreliable Historians.--Spanish Falsification.--
Interesting Churches.--Off the Track.--Personal Relics of
Cortez.--Torturing a Victim.--Aztec Antiquities.--Tlaxcala.--
Church of San Francisco.--Peon Dwellings.--Cortez and the
Tlax