He emphasized its diversity in climate and productions, the wide range of its plant life, the great number of indian tribes which occupied it, the Babel of tongues within it, its vast mineral wealth.

A Mexican by birth, the archbishop is, in part, of English blood and was educated, as a boy, in England.

He speaks English easily and well.

He showed us many curious and interesting things.

Among these was a cylindrical, box-like figure of a rain-god, which was found by a priest upon his arrival at the Mixe Indian village of Mixistlan.[A] It was in the village church, at the high altar where it shared worship with the virgin and the crucifix.