Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-04-07
TRIr no MEXICO.
. I.lackfOot Lady Saw IA The Land
og The MOntezRmas.

A. enjoy ile Htlls h'iHl "ilici
snds himself Ia the month Of
me- asr rolling over immense plains,
I '''g n tropical plants, eternal sus-
- and flowers Of rarest beauty and
licious fragrance.
oas riding through such grandeur
not experience the monOtonous
sIIn ~ 50 usual to the traveller, but
NM wishes the trip could be length
into months, or that he could
!, his tent in some beautiful vale
there remain. But as a village
n .nproached, a gaze at the poor and
y clothed natives changes the cur
I, II thought, and we think of our
\ = northern home and are salts
The inhabitants of the small
sas an live in adobe houses which
cooler than houses made of wood.
one who has never seen a "doby"
- enters such a town he can hard
realize that business Is carried on
.oDg lis people, and that some pos
!, wealth TO considerable degree.
Il the approach Of a train the ma
r. crowd around the windows i'm
4 tunlng the passengers to purchase
,ir fruits, dulce, (sweets) aud pulque,
"A 4, native drink. Delicious tropical
IN Of every kind are offered, and
few cents, 10 or Is, all one wants
4 u purchased. Children as young
four years, half clothed, crowd
oand the windows, and with their
ly hands hold up bunch OF banan-
i pine apple or branch Of lemas,
4 offer them for sale with the tact
eageness of a yankee peddler-
\ d vhen few cents are dropped 10
Al hand, and the fruit reached To
purchaser, they scamper Off with
sgility Of a deer, as happy us the
#nerican youth Of the same age Is,
4 sn be is presented With rocking.
n W., horn and a whole circus.
H 0a the morning Of the fourth day
Fl Ia our departure from III Paso, we
aehed the City Of Mexico. aud so
Iious were We 10 visit all the his
n real places, that il seemed impoSsi,
Il 70 decide upon our Grst choice.
N Wing at Mexico was an American
sod who devoted himself 10 us du.
b z our visit in the city, and AS be-
oke ,he Spanish language We found
difficulty in making ourselves un-
Ers,ooi and 10 all places Of interests
n ooHductcd ua
II We visited first the National Muse
D fall of historical and archaeological
llacilous Almost the lrsi object
interest and history that the visitor
b. i Nlaximilian's golden chariot.
Fsssnie,i 10 him by che Emperor %
$as;ra |, III o. onr ~ the
Y p. u @ ,a gseFigG
p b .l .aka
Is ahlalus l,Jlguaur, beautiful dec.
saiioRs, cushioned interior and Gle.
bal satin and velvet drapcrics But
p feeling II admiration turns 10 one
\ pity y nnr thoughts 20 farther and
think 81 tee sad fate ~ Maxlmil.
|ashi hi poor Car!ot,a. who were not
PRINTED to appear many times In |
eiF gorgeous chariot, surrounded by /
The sliiscring Pomp o. royalty,
Passing on We bcheld the Aztec /
E1iacial stone, and as We locked up. 1
i a feeling Of disgust aud horror
ok possession 81 us as VIC gazed at /
p blood stains In the bowl in the /
laier. and the trough or groove
rough which the blood II the sacri. /
BED victims flowed. The sanriflcial 1
Poae Is rock two and half metres
diameter and four,llfths Of a metre 1
hsighi and was discovered in the 1
'nhapal plaza Of the City 81 Mexico
H9l BY men engaged In cxcava.
'hg sewage channel. i, Is his. |
peal aud religious monument Of
b Aztccs.
AZ the landing Of the spaniards in
'leTico the sacritieial stone occupied |
= ground on which the church Of
Y hippolito now stands. On July |
'pA, 1919, one Of Cortcz's officers. |
loeked at the barbarity OF the sacri.
= Of human beings, interfcred just
sacrifice was being made; where.
i"n The Aztecs became Infatuated
= !. Killed the young officer and those
,h hIm. Cortez and his army aveng.
! The death Of their followers, re.
WED the sacrifcial stone, aud on
I site which il occupied built a
aufeh San Hippolito In the build.
y connected with this church Cortcz
va while in the City of Mexico. To
= sacrifice Of victims Father Duran,
historian, refers as follows:
p', w sound Of musical instruments, they
- ~ sst iotth nm Indian tTum among tho pris.
~ ln Wat; he was accompanied aud
M sa,ltcd red with white stripes; One-half
a $780, was painted red: y white plume
ssistses1 INTO his hair; he carried in one hand
cathsrr t wv, vgry gay with knots and tics
Mi b,,...,,, hand he bore n shield with ave
liiic bnnS,ss OF cotton on e ON his back was