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CHAPTER XVI. 



Inns. — Shops. — Trades. — Dresses, &c. 



A stranger, on his arrival in Mexico with- 

 out an introduction, and with little knowledge 

 of the language, will be unpleasantly si- 

 tuated, as the inns do not supply his table, 

 and it is very difficult to procure private 

 furnished lodgings. Apartments are to be 

 hired unfurnished, but till they can be made 

 ready, he must repair to the Gran Sociedad, 

 or some such place, where an ordinary is 

 kept ; though even here they supply neither 

 beds nor furniture, and the guest must make 

 a positive bargain for his room, and pay 

 every day for whatever he has, or he will be 



