Anahuac

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Author: Edward Burnett Tylor
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ANAHUAC
or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
by
EDWARD B. TYLOR
1861

[Illustration: Frontspiece. See page 93. THE CASCADE OF REGLA.
From a Photograph by J. Ball Esq. of the Hacienda de Regla. March
1856.]

INTRODUCTION.
The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the
narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the
months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on

horseback. The author and his fellow-traveller enjoyed many
advantageous opportunities of studying the country, the people, and the
antiquities of Mexico, owing to the friendly assistance and hospitality
which they received there. With this aid they were enabled to
accomplish much more than usually falls to the lot of travellers in so
limited a period; and they had the great advantage too, of being able to
substantiate or correct their own observations by the local knowledge
and experience of their friends and entertainers.
Visiting Mexico during a lull in the civil turmoil of that lamentably
disturbed Republic, they were fortunate in being able to avail
themselves of that peaceable season in making excursions to
remarkable places and ruins, and examining the national collection of
antiquities, and other objects of interest,--an opportunity that cannot
have occurred since owing to the recommencement of civil war in its
worst form.
The following are some of the chief points of interest in these Notes on
Mexico, which are either new or treated more fully than hitherto:
1. The evidence of an immense ancient population, shewn by the
abundance of remains of works of art (treated of at pages 146-150), is
fully stated here.
2. The notices and drawings of Obsidian knives and weapons (at page
95, &c., and in the Appendix) are more ample than any previously
given.
3. The treatment of the Mexican Numerals (at page 108) is partly new.
4. The proofs of the highly probable sophistication of the document in
the Library at Paris, relative to Mexican eclipses, have not previously
been advanced (see Appendix).
5. The notices of objects of Mexican art, &c., in the chapter on
Antiquities, and elsewhere (including the Appendix), are for the most
part new to the public.
6. The remarks on the connection between pure Mexican art and that of
Central America, in the chapter on Xochicalco, are in great part new.
7. The singular native bridge at Tezcuco (page 153) is another novelty.
The order in which places and things were visited is shewn in the
annexed Itinerary, or sketch of the journeys and excursions described.

ITINERARY:

Journey 1. Cuba. Havana. Batabano. Isles of Pines. Nueva Gerona.
Baños de Santa Fé. Back to Havana. Pages 1-14.
Journey 2. Havana. Sisal. Vera Cruz. Pages 15-18.
Journey 3. Vera Cruz. Cordova. Orizaba. Huamantla. Otumba.
Guadalupe. Mexico. Pages 18-38.
Journey 4. Mexico to Tacubaya and Chapultepec, and back. Pages
55-58.
Journey 5. Mexico to Santa Anita and back. Pages 59-65.
Journey 6. Mexico. Guadalupe. Pachuca. Real del Monte. Regla.
Atotonilco el Grande. Soquital and back to Real del Monte. Real del
Monte to Mount Jacal and Cerro de Navajas (obsidian-pits), and back
to Real del Monte. Pachuca. Guadalupe. Mexico. Pages 72-105.
Journey 7. Mexico to Tisapán. Ravine of Magdalena. Pedrigal
(lava-field), and back. Pages 118-120.
Journey 8. Mexico to Tezcuco. Pages 129--162. Tezcuco to Pyramids
of Teotihuacán and back. Pages 136--146. Tezcuco to Tezcotzinco (the
so-called "Montezuma's Bath," &c.). Aztec Bridge, and back to
Tezcuco. Pages 152-153. Tezcuco to Bosque del Contador (the grove
of ahuehuetes, where excavations were made.) Pages 154-156. Tezcuco
to Mexico. Page 62.
Journey 9. Mexico. San Juan de Dios. La Guarda. Cuernavaca. Temisco.
Xochicalco. Miacatlán. Cocoytla. Pages 172-195. Cocoytla to village
and cave of Cacahuamilpán and back. Pages 196-205. Cocoytla to
Chalma. Oculán. El Desierto. Tenancingo. Toluca. Lerma. Las Cruzes.
Mexico. Pages 214-220.
Journey 10. Mexico to Tezcuco. Miraflores. Amecameca. Popocatepetl.
San Nicolas de los Ranchos. Cholula. Puebla. Amozoque. Nopaluca.
San Antonio de abajo. Orizaba. Amatlán. El Potrero. Cordova. San
Andrés. Chalchicomula. La Junta. Jalapa. Vera Cruz. West Indies and
Home. Pages 260- 327.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I
.
Cuba. Volantes. A Cuban Railway. Voyage. Passports. Isle of Pines.

Mosquitos. Pirates. Runaway slaves. Baths of Santa Fé.