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The common people were the sufferers by this arrangement, for the Alcaldes of their own race cheated them without mercy, and were harder upon them than even their white rulers, just as on slave-estates a black driver is much severer than a white one. Near some of the houses we noticed that curious institution the temazcalli, which corresponds exactly to the Russian vapour-bath.
SALA, a hall, dining-room. SERAPE, a Mexican blanket; see p. 169. SOMBRERO, a hat. TACUMENILES, pine-shingles for roofing. TEMAZCALLI, Indian vapour-bath; see p. 301. TEFONAZTLI, Indian wooden drum. TETZONTLI, porous amygdaloid lava, a stone much used for building in Mexico. TIENDA, a shop; see p. 82. TIERRA CALIENTE, the hot region. TIERRA FRÍA, the cold region.
One would think the bath would make the Indians cleanly in their persons, but it hardly seems so, for they look rather dirtier after they have been in the temazcalli than before, just as the author of A Journey due North says of the Russian peasants. To us the most interesting question about the Mexican Indians of this district was this, Why are there so few of them?
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