34 SIX MONTHS IN MEXICO. 



attended with danger. In the month of 

 April I was awakened by a smart shock, 

 followed by a tremulous motion, as if a 

 person had been shaking the bed on which I 

 was sleeping: the whole house was alarmed, 

 but I heard of no damage in the city, though 

 at Themascaltepec it had injured the church, 

 and displaced some of the statues from the 

 niches on its front. . 



