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GENUINE BUT CAUTIOUS HOSPITALITY. 



everything he possesses is " a la disposition de listed!" Yet, 

 when his acquaintance has ripened into friendship, and he under- 

 stands that you appreciate his tastes, his country, his language, his 

 prejudices, his religion, and his habits, or do not visit him, as many 

 foreigners have done, merely to scoff and condemn, — then, indeed, 

 the social manners of the Mexican relax into intimacy, and the 

 attention he bestows on you may be more firmly trusted because it 

 was so cautiously yielded. The stranger who penetrates a Mexican 

 house under such circumstances, finds its hospitality unbounded, 

 and its generous inmates his devoted and faithful servants either for 

 life or until he forfeits their esteem by treachery or misconduct. 



THE VIRGIN OF GUADALUPE. 



In every Mexican church, monastery, convent, palace, house, 

 hut, hovel, hacienda, or rancho, the traveller will not fail to observe 

 an image of " The Virgin of Guadalupe." Many men receive the 

 name of u Guadalupe," in baptism, and almost every woman has it 

 added to the others she receives from her parents or sponsors. A 

 saint whose tutelary influence is at once so national and so curious 

 deserves especial mention in the notice of a country over whose 

 people she is supposed to exercise a mysterious dominion ; and we 

 therefore present the reader the following translation from the Span* 



