Coffee, tea, wine, liquor, _horchata_ (a rice drink), _jamaica_ (a tropical drink), chocolate. Wine and liquor were both domestic and imported. Both local and imported cheeses were served, as well as European delicacies like caviar, marmalades, jellies, mints, nuts, and bon-bons. After dinner, the siesta called for relaxation, comfortable chairs, hammocks. A well-earned sense of ease took over. A few guests played pool or billiards, bridge, rummy, pinochle. At dusk, croquet was a favorite game. Some estates had a swimming pool or access to a river, lake, or ocean playa. [Illustration: Hacienda de Altillo, Coyoacán, D.F.: pastel of St. Andrew.] [Illustration: Hacienda de Xotla, Puebla: residence patio and oven.] [Illustration: Hacienda Zapotitán, Jalisco: map on veranda of residence.] [Illustration: Hacienda de Buena Vista, Jalisco: 18th-century aqueduct.] [Illustration: Hacienda de Zapotitán, Jalisco: remains of 1750 residence and mirador; white stuccoed masonry.] At a Jesuit hacienda, a peasant who failed to attend Mass might be lashed; but the average hacienda was lenient about attendance. At evening Mass after a day's labor, the workers were glad to kneel or squat: the hour was a humble reward. Hymns were sung. Someone played the organ or piano. Each chapel or church boasted an altar--a lace-covered table with paper flowers or a rococo gilded carving, with _santos_ (saints) and angels in the gray niches. The Virgin or saint was the focal point. Stained-glass and onyx windows appeared in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Marble and onyx sometimes replaced mesquite or tiled floors. Some chapels and churches had pews, but in those without furniture the workers knelt. As for the hacienda family, they sat on cane chairs or worshipped behind a screened _coro_. There was a clear distance between them and the "unwashed." [Illustration: Hacienda de Dolores Noriatenco, Puebla: polychrome wood statue, 16th-century, 5 feet tall.] Most services were conducted in Latin, a language disliked by the Indians because they considered it an affront to their integrity. Spanish was a tribulation and Latin was another. When they memorized songs in Latin or Spanish, they often mispronounced words intentionally. [Illustration: Hacienda de Castamay, Campeche: 18th-century church.] Crucifixes were evident in most places of worship. The figure of Christ was sometimes pornographic in style, sometimes tragic. "Yerma," Federico Garcia Lorca's tragic evocation, was brought to life again and again.