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The Boy Travellers in Mexico / Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Northern and Central Mexico, Campeachey, and Yucatan, With a Description of the Republics of Central America and of the Nicaragua Canal

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By Thomas Wallace Knox
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The narrative follows two young companions and their guide on a guided tour across northern and central Mexico, with excursions to Campeche and the Yucatán, interspersing day-to-day travel incidents with descriptive accounts of towns, landscapes, customs, antiquities, and natural history. Practical observations on railways, hotels, border formalities, and local industries alternate with historical sketches and statistical material. The book concludes with extended descriptions of the Central American republics and an account of surveys, routes, and commercial arguments concerning a proposed Nicaragua interoceanic canal.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] "The Boy Travellers in the Far East" (five volumes), and "The Boy Travellers in South America," "The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire," "The Boy Travellers on the Congo," and "The Boy Travellers in Australasia" (four volumes). See complete list at the end of this book.

[2] Since the Boy Travellers made their journey through Mexico the time-table of the Mexican National Railway has been changed. The express train leaves Laredo at 6.35 p.m., and Nuevo Laredo at 8.20. Monterey is reached at 2.40 a.m., and Saltillo, where passengers take breakfast, at 6.20. They dine at Catorce, sup at San Luis Potosi, and reach the City of Mexico at 9.50 on the second morning after their departure from the Rio Grande.

[3] The youths were evidently unaware that there is a Mexican Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Its headquarters are in the City of Mexico; its president is Señor Vidal Castañeda y Nadal, and its secretary Señor Eduardo L. Gallo. The society had done excellent work in preventing cruelty to animals, and in addition to other things has caused bull-fighting to be suppressed in several parts of the republic.

[4] In "Our Sister Republic," by Albert S. Evans, p. 305.

[5] See "The Boy Travellers in Ceylon and India," chap. xix.