14 SIX MONTHS IN MEXICO. 



but, alas ! it is but a painted Golgotha, the 

 head-quarters of Death, for I believe it to be 

 one of the most unhealthy spots on earth ! 

 M. De Humboldt has given a most frightful 

 statement of the number of deaths in this 

 charnel-house of Europeans, taken from in* 

 controvertible documents. 



