ILLUSTRATIONS

[A Chieftain Dressed for the Easter Ceremony of the Yaqui Indians]
[In Those Days Trains Did Not Venture to Run at Night Across the Sonora Desert]
[An Escort of Soldiers Occupied a Freight Car Ahead as a Precaution Against Bandits]
[A Burro Train Laden with Bullion from the Mines]
[La Colorada, Once the Home of Gold Mines, Now Served Only as a Depot for Trucks That Crossed the Desert]
[Indian Women, Pounding Clothes upon the Rocks Beside a Shallow Brook, Ceased Their Work to Stare]
[The Christ Was Represented by a Cheap Rag Doll Cradled in a Wicker Basket]
[For Three Days the Indians Neither Ate Nor Slept, Refreshing Themselves Only with Mescal]
[The Mexican Señorita Has Always Been Portrayed in Our Fiction as a Wild Vampire]
[In the Days of Carranza One Frequently Saw a Bandit Hanging Around the Railway]
[Pedro Zamorra Had Removed a Few Ties Where the Train Came Around a Bend]
[So Worthless Were the Federal Troops That Many Americans Professed a Preference for Bandits]
[The Orange Trees in Guadalajara’s Plaza Were Golden Throughout the Year]
[Mexico City, One of the Most Ornate Capitals in the Western Hemisphere, Somewhat Resembled Paris]
[The Mexican Pyramids Probably Antedate Those of Egypt by a Thousand Years or More]
[In the Gardens of Xochimilco, Relics of an Aztec Paradise, Only the Cabbages Were in Bloom]
[Mexican Policemen in White Spats]
[No Latin-American Village Is So Tiny But That It Has a Square Devoted to Bartering]
[The Mexican Peon So Loves the Excitement of the Market That He Refuses to Sell His Goods Elsewhere]
[The Tehuana Maidens Regarded a Man as a Luxury Rather Than a Necessity]
[The Abundant Central-American Volcanoes Fertilize the Coffee Fincas with Lava Dust]
[Guatemala’s Population Includes a Million Pure-blooded Aborigines]
[Occasionally the Resultant Earthquakes Knock Down a City or Destroy the Guatemalan Cathedral]
[When Orellana Started a Revolution, President Herrera Made No Strenuous Objection]
[The Only Casualties Were a Few Policemen Who Mistook the Revolution for a Disorderly Demonstration]
[A Banana-Boat Loading on the East Coast]
[In These Pleasant Tropical Countries No Peon Girl Escapes Maternity]
[From His Palace the President Could Watch the Treasury to See That No One Stole the National Debt]
[Soldiers Stopped a Pedestrian at Every Corner to Search for Weapons]
[The Warship Rochester Had Anchored at Amapala on What Was Described as a Courtesy Visit]
[The American Intervention Had Brought Peace, but Managua’s Dusty Streets Suggested no Prosperity]
[If the American Marines Were Withdrawn from Nicaragua a Revolution Would Transpire Over-Night]
[For Three Days the Boatmen Poled the Launch Through Shallows Framed in Rank Green Jungle]
[Greytown Was a Typical East Coast Port—Low, Swampy and Unattractive—With Black Complexions Prevailing]
[San José Contains the Most Delightful Plazas and the Most Beautiful Women in the World]
[A Machine-Gun Tower Built by the Tyrant Tinoco]
[In Its Interior Decoration the Costa Rican National Theater Equals Any Theater in the United States]

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CHAPTER ION THE BORDER

CHAPTER I
ON THE BORDER