They wear a most extraordinary and unique combined headdress and shawl.

In the markets could certainly be seen wonderfully beautiful faces, quite beautiful enough to justify the claim mentioned.

At Rincon is the starting-point of the projected and begun Pan-American railroad, which will eventually reach to Buenos Ayres.

At Salina Cruz, the Pacific end of the isthmus, and I should think one of the windiest places on earth, perhaps beating even Amarillo, I met a young American millionaire, a charming man who had large interests in Guatemala.

We sailed together from Salina Cruz on a small coasting steamer bound for Panama.