Excerpt from A Descriptive Reading on Picturesque Mexico: Illustrated by Fifty Lantern Slides Four days from the highest modern civilization to a land where the people still do as they have been doing for the past three hundred years; Where the rich and poor kneel side by side in a common church a land where the sights of the year one are mingled with the modern telephone and street car. Let the spectator imagine a warm, humid air, a tropical sun and sky, and we will introduce our first View. I. Vera Cruz Harbor. - Like all those on the east coast of Mexico this harbor is a very poor' one. The people and baggage are transferred from the steamer to the shore in small boats, which are frequently upset, giving the passengers a free bath, greatly to their disgust, but much to the enjoyment of the natives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.