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AZTEC LAND
BY
MATURIN M. BALLOU
The dust is old upon my sandal-shoon,
And still I am a pilgrim.
N. P. Willis.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1890
Copyright, 1890,
By MATURIN M. BALLOU.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company
PREFACE.
Having resolved to visit Mexico, the question first to be considered washow to do so in the most advantageous manner. Repairing to the office ofMessrs. Raymond & Whitcomb, in Boston, after a brief consultation withthose experienced organizers of travel, the author handed the firm acheck for the cost of a round trip to Mexico and back. On the followingday he took his seat in a Pullman parlor car in Boston, to occupy thesame section until his return from an excursion of ten thousand miles. Aselect party of ladies and gentlemen came together at the same time inthe Fitchburg railroad station, most of whom were strangers to eachother, but who were united by the same purpose. The traveler lives,eats, and sleeps in the vestibule train, while en route, in which h