Identifier: triptomexicobein00bech (find matches)
Title: A trip to Mexico, being notes of a journey from Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and back, with an appendix, containing and being a paper about the ancient nations and races who inhabited Mexico before and at the time of the Spanish conquest, and the ancient stone and other structures and ruins of ancient cities found there
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Becher, Henry C. R
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel Mexico -- Antiquities
Publisher: Toronto : Willing and Williamson
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tionby the enactment of a law prohibiting steamersfrom running at night at all! There are no lights. To-morrow morning we are to get to Vera Cruz,and if we are up very early, and it is clear, we shallsee Orizaba, called by sailors the Star of the Seas,from its glistening peak—a respectable mountain,more than two thousand feet higher than MontBlanc. Friday, 22nd Feb., 8 a.m. Here we are at anchor in the harbour of Vera€ruz, if a poor anchorage between three shoals canbe called a harbour. Orizaba was hidden in theclouds, and we missed the approach to this place,in ignominious sleep. Close on our right is thefamed castle of San Juan dUlloa; above it andbehind, and to our left, shoals, coral reefs, surf; infront of us the long sea wall, the mole, and the cityof the True Cross, looking so bright and clean, andstrange and pretty and foreign ! We soon land at the mole, pass the custom houseclose by, with little trouble, and cross a large squarecrowded with mule-carts, Indians and Negroes
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s 8 S V^RA CRUZ. 15 moving freight from, or to tlie mole, and are soonhoused in the Hotel de Mexico. The bed-roomsare after the fashion of the East; a narrow iron bed-stead, no drapery save musquito curtains, a coupleof chairs and a washing stand form the whole furni-ture, and the floor is of brick. The building is threestories high, and the halls and passages from theground-floor to the attic, have, instead of floors,iron rods or gratings across them to permit thecirculation of air; this makes walking about thehouse unpleasant for people who are given to giddi-ness or not sure-footed. Vera Cruz is soon seen, and one soon tires ofseeing it; the streets are narrow, the houses flat-roofed, and for the most part low ; but then thereis the great square, the Plaza de la Constitution,with its beautiful tropical trees and plants, and thereis a fine old church, and the Governors palace.Each street has a gutter trickling down its middle,dosed daily with disinfectants, and there is an armyof bu

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