Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 60135-h.htm or 60135-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/60135/60135-h/60135-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/60135/60135-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/mexicoherpeopleo02wint MEXICO AND HER PEOPLE OF TO-DAY * * * * * * Uniform with This Volume Panama and the Canal $3.00 BY FORBES LINDSAY Cuba and Her People of To-day 3.00 BY FORBES LINDSAY Brazil and Her People of To-day 3.00 BY NEVIN O. WINTER Guatemala and Her People of To-day 3.00 BY NEVIN O. WINTER Mexico and Her People of To-day 3.00 BY NEVIN O. WINTER Argentina and Her People of To-day 3.00 BY NEVIN O. WINTER Bohemia and the Čechs 3.00 BY WILL S. MONROE In Viking Land. Norway: Its Peoples, Its Fjords and Its Fjelds 3.00 BY WILL S. MONROE Turkey and the Turks 3.00 BY WILL S. MONROE Sicily, the Garden of the Mediterranean 3.00 BY WILL S. MONROE In Wildest Africa 3.00 BY PETER MACQUEEN L. C. PAGE & COMPANY 53 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. * * * * * * [Illustration: A BELLE OF TEHUANTEPEC (_See page 180_)] MEXICO AND HER PEOPLE OF TO-DAY An Account of the Customs, Characteristics, Amusements, History and Advancement of the Mexicans, and the Development and Resources of Their Country by NEVIN O. WINTER Illustrated from Original Photographs by the Author and C. R. Birt New Revised Edition [Illustration] Boston L. C. Page and Company MDCCCCXII Copyright, 1907, by L. C. Page & Company (Incorporated) Copyright, 1912, by L. C. Page & Company (Incorporated) Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London All rights reserved Second Impression, May, 1908 Third Impression, June, 1910 New Revised Edition, January, 1912 Electrotyped and Printed by The Colonial Press C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U.S.A. TO My Mother AND THE MEMORY OF My Father PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION