In this respect they differ exceedingly from the Spaniards, whose jests are generally about _things_, and seldom about their _names_, as one sees by their almost always bearing translation into other languages.
Most of the canoes were tastefully decorated with flowers, for the Aztecs have not lost their old taste for ornamenting themselves, and everything about them, with garlands and nosegays.

The fruits and vegetables they were carrying to market were very English in their appearance.

Mexico is supplied with all kinds of tropical fruits, which come from a distance; but the district we are now in only produces plants which might grow in our own country--barley, potatoes, cabbages, parsnips, apples, pears, plums, peaches, and so forth, but scarcely anything tropical in its character.

One thing surprises us, that the Indians, in a climate where the mornings and evenings are often very chilly, should dress so scantily.

The men have a general appearance of having outgrown their clothes; for the sleeves of the kind of cotton-shirt they wear only reach to their elbows, and their trousers, of the same material, only fall to their knees.