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In Indian Mexico (1908)

CHAPTER III
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These two were very popular, and indulged in many acts that bordered on the obscene.

We got no satisfactory explanation of this whole performance.

The _cura_ said that it represented the conflict between Christ and the Jews; this we greatly doubted.
Mixe roads avoid no mountains, and usually go straight up one slope and down the other.

The Mixe villages are set upon the very crests, or upon little terraces a few hundred feet below the crest, or the summit of some spur that juts out from the great mountain mass, of a long and narrow ridge.

The road from Juquila, by Ocotopec to Quezaltepec was beautiful and typical.


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