A Mexican Journey
Book Author Emil Harry Blichfeldt
DescriptionMOST of what appears in the following pages was first written for the Chau-tauquan magazine, though all has been carefully revised for its present use. If the fruits of laborious original research appear anywhere, it is the research of some one besides the author. His debt in this way is informally suggested by the text, except when it relates to things now become common property, and calling for no special acknowledgment. The opinions and sentiments expressed regarding our Mexican neighbors, on the contrary, may be taken as at first hand. Here also the writer would be presumptuous to set up any claims as a discoverer or to deny that he owes much to teachers and prompters. These opinions and sentiments, however, are such as without falsity he may call his o^vn, and grow out of alert, sympathetic contact and correspondence with Mexicans for several years. If the reader can be made to adopt