Regular feast weeks were held every year at what was then known as St.Augustin Tlalpam, eleven miles out of town.
There were dealers to suit every class and condition of people.

In many of the booths tlackos--the copper coin of the country, four of them making six and a quarter cents of our money--were piled up in great quantities, with some silver, to accommodate the people who could not bet more than a few pennies at a time.

In other booths silver formed the bulk of the capital of the bank, with a few doubloons to be changed if there should be a run of luck against the bank.

In some there was no coin except gold.

Here the rich were said to bet away their entire estates in a single day.