NARRATIVE OF EXPERIENCES, AND OBSERVATIONS ON AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS BY HENRY H. HARPER PRINTED PRIVATELY FOR THE AUTHOR BY THE DE VINNE PRESS, N. Y. BOSTON—MCMX Copyright, 1910, By Henry H. Harper All rights reserved A LIMITED NUMBER OF COPIES OF THIS WORK HAVE BEEN ISSUED PRIVATELY FOR DISTRIBUTION AMONG THE AUTHOR'S FRIENDS AND BOOK-LOVING ACQUAINTANCES,—MOSTLY TO MEMBERS OF THE BIBLIOPHILE SOCIETY...

The volume here presented to the reader does not profess to be a history or description of Mexico as a whole, nor does it claim to be typical of all sections of the country. It deals simply with an out-of-the-way and little-known region, accompanied by a history of personal experiences, with comment upon conditions almost or quite unknown to the ordinary traveler. Many books upon Mexico have been written—a few by competent and others by incompetent hands—in which the writers sometimes charge eac

There are few civilized countries where the American pleasure-seeking traveler is so seldom seen as in the rural districts of southeastern Mexico, along the coast between Tampico and Vera Cruz. The explanation for this is doubtless to be found in the fact that there is perhaps no other civilized country where the stranger is subjected to so many personal discomforts and vexations resulting from incommodious facilities for travel, and from the multiplicity of pests that beset his path. The writer