Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vols. I and II

Книга "Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vols. I and II". At two o'clock, under a brilliant moonlight, and with a single guide, we started for the Pacific. The road was level and wooded. We passed a trapiche or sugar-mill, worked by oxen, and before daylight reached the village of Masagua, four leagues distant, built in a clearing cut out of the woods, at the entrance of which we stopped under a grove of orange-trees, and by the light of the moon filled our pockets and alforgas with the shining fruit. Daylight broke upon us in a forest of gigantic trees, from seventy-five to a hundred feet high, and from twenty to twenty-five feet in circumference, with creepers winding around their trunks and hanging from the branches. The road was merely a path through the forest, formed by cutting away shrubs and branches. The freshness of the morning was delightful.-from Chapter XIIIAs a Special Ambassador to Central America in 1839, American diplomat and writer JOHN ...