At the bridge we chartered a canoe to Santa Anita.

This Santa Anita is a little Indian village on the canal of Chalco, and to-day there is to be a festival there.

For this, however, we shall be too early, as we have to be back in time to see Mexico turn out for a promenade on the Paseo de las Vigas, and then to go out to dinner.

So we must just take the opportunity of looking at the Indian population as they go up and down the canal in canoes, and see their gardens and their houses.

However, as the Indian notion of a festival consists in going to mass in the morning, and getting drunk and fighting in the afternoon, we are perhaps as well out of it.