Incidents of Travel in Central America: Chiapas and Yucatan, Volume 1

by John Lloyd Stephens

but a month from home, and in the hands of men who would have been turned out of any decent state prison lest they should contaminate the boarders.

The don's house had two sides, an inside and an out. The don and his family occupied the former, and we the latter;

in the solemn stillness of the woods, it seemed a divinity mourning over a fallen people.

I never had much practice in embracing nuns;

The major-domo was sitting on the ground doing nothing, and two ablebodied men were helping him.