A GRINGO IN MAÑANA-LAND

BY
HARRY L. FOSTER
Author of
“The Adventures of a Tropical Tramp,”
“A Beachcomber in the Orient,” etc.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM
PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY THE AUTHOR

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1924

Copyright, 1924,
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.

PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY
The Quinn & Boden Company

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A CHIEFTAIN DRESSED FOR THE EASTER CEREMONY OF THEYAQUI INDIANS

The term “gringo”—a word of vague origin,once applied with contempt to the Americanin Mexico—is now used throughout LatinAmerica, without its former opprobrium, to describeany foreigner.

The Spanish “mañana”—literally “to-morrow”—isextremely popular south of the Rio Grande,where, in phrases suggesting postponement, it enablesthe inhabitant to solve many of life’s most perplexingproblems.

This book covers various random wanderings inMexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua,and Costa Rica. It deals with a romance or two, arevolution or so, and a hodge-podge of personal experience.The incidents of the earlier chapters precede,while those of the later ones follow, theauthor’s vagabond journeys recorded in “The Adventuresof a Tropical Tramp,” and “A Beachcomberin the Orient.”

The chapter on the Yaqui Indians is publishedwith the permission of the editor of “The OpenRoad.” The photographs of the Guatemalan revolutionwere taken by Roy Neil Bunstine, of GuatemalaCity.