Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Travels in Central America: Including Accounts of Some Regions Unexplored Since the Conquest
Caraway - Surrounding Scenery - Fruits and flowers-gaema - Currency - In sect pests - Antiquities - Physical features of Yucatan - Acahm - Population - So cial animosities - Preparation for departure - The Mediterranean of the New World - Primitive N avigation - Ocmoas and Cum - Embarkation - Waiting for a Puts - Disappointment - O?' at last - El Morro - Roadstead of Chiba - Priestly pas times - The father and his ?ock - Champoton - Beminisoences of the Conquest Island of Carmen - Sterility of the soil - Character of the people - The town of Car men - Picturesque suburbs - The manila-vegetable wealth - Misplaced mel odies - Climate of Carmen - Aboriginal relics - Night thoughts - Lagoon of Terminos - Hydrography of the country - The river Usumasinta - Fishes - Start for the ln terior - Scorpions - Entomology on a large scale - Sunset - Boca C'm'ea - A maze of waters - Gigantic forests - Storm - River navigation - Animated nature - Jam do Pae jaros - A Mosquito Malako? - Rio Vlojo - Retrospects - Palizada - Spanlsh Ameri can hospitality - Origin of the town - Its trade - Inhabitants - Surrounding swamps and their inmates - The jaccma - Logwood cutting and peonage - Mangos - Palma real - Varieties of fish and turtlee-rattlesnakeb-the deadly nahwyacp.
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