PREFACE.
The reading public may well ask, Why another travel book on Mexico?
Few countries have been so frequently written up by the traveler.
Many books, good, bad, and indifferent, but chiefly bad, have been perpetrated.

Most of these books, however, cover the same ground, and ground which has been traversed by many people.

Indian Mexico is practically unknown.

The only travel-book regarding it, in English, is Lumholtz's "Unknown Mexico." The indians among whom Lumholtz worked lived in northwestern Mexico; those among whom I have studied are in southern Mexico.

The only district where his work and mine overlap is the Tarascan area.