Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54 and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited

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Cover of the book Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54 and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Robert A. Wilson, Library of Alexandria
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Author: Robert A. Wilson ISBN: 9781465534224
Publisher: Library of Alexandria Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Robert A. Wilson
ISBN: 9781465534224
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Publication: March 8, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English
The custom of mingling together historical events with the incidents of travel, of amusement with instruction, is rather a Spanish than American practice; and in adopting it, I must crave the indulgence of those of my readers who read only for instruction, as well as of those who read only for amusement. The evidence that I have adduced to prove that the yellow fever is not an American, but an African disease, imported in slave-ships, and periodically renewed from those cargoes of human rottenness and putrefaction, I hope will be duly considered. The picture of inner convent life, and the inimitable gambling scene in the convent of San Francis, I have not dared to present on my own responsibility, nor even that of the old English black-letter edition of Friar Thomas, but I have reproduced it from the expurgated Spanish edition, which has passed the censors, and must therefore be considered official.
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The custom of mingling together historical events with the incidents of travel, of amusement with instruction, is rather a Spanish than American practice; and in adopting it, I must crave the indulgence of those of my readers who read only for instruction, as well as of those who read only for amusement. The evidence that I have adduced to prove that the yellow fever is not an American, but an African disease, imported in slave-ships, and periodically renewed from those cargoes of human rottenness and putrefaction, I hope will be duly considered. The picture of inner convent life, and the inimitable gambling scene in the convent of San Francis, I have not dared to present on my own responsibility, nor even that of the old English black-letter edition of Friar Thomas, but I have reproduced it from the expurgated Spanish edition, which has passed the censors, and must therefore be considered official.

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