The American minister joined our party and made himself agreeable and useful.

Guatemala city was once the Paris of America, was rich, gay and prosperous; to-day it is--different, but still very interesting.

You are there in a bygone world, an age of the past.

Revolutions and inter-State wars have driven capital from the country; progress is at a standstill; confidence in anybody does not exist.

As in the Central American States, "Ote toi de la que m'y mette" is on the standard of every ambitious general, colonel or politician.