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CHAPTER ONE.
A CITY OF ANGELS.
La Puebla de los Angeles is peculiar, even among the cities of modern
Mexico; peculiar in the fact, that two-thirds of its population are
composed of priests, _pelados, poblanas_, pickpockets, and _incarones_
of a bolder type.
Perhaps I have been too liberal in allowing a third to the "gente de
bueno," or respectable people. There are travellers who have altogether
denied their existence; but this may be an exaggeration on the other
side.
Trusting to my own souvenirs, I think I can remember having met with
honest men--and women too--in the City of the Angels. But I shall not
be positive about their proportion to the rest of the population. It
may be less than a third--certainly it is not _more_!
Equally certain is it: that every tenth man you meet in the streets of
Puebla is either a priest, or in some way connected with the holy
fraternity--and that every tenth woman is far from being an angel!
_Curas_ in robes of black silk serge, stockings of the finest texture,
and "coal-scuttle" hats, full three feet in length; friars of all orders
and colours--black and white, blue, brown, and grey--with shaven crowns
and sandalled feet, are encountered, not only at every corner, but
almost at every step you take.
If monks were immaculate, Puebla might deserve the sanctified
appellation it has received--the _City of the Angels_. As it is, the
_City of the Devils_ would be a more appropriate title for it!
"The nearer the church, the farther from God."
A CITY OF ANGELS.
La Puebla de los Angeles is peculiar, even among the cities of modern
Mexico; peculiar in the fact, that two-thirds of its population are
composed of priests, _pelados, poblanas_, pickpockets, and _incarones_
of a bolder type.
Perhaps I have been too liberal in allowing a third to the "gente de
bueno," or respectable people. There are travellers who have altogether
denied their existence; but this may be an exaggeration on the other
side.
Trusting to my own souvenirs, I think I can remember having met with
honest men--and women too--in the City of the Angels. But I shall not
be positive about their proportion to the rest of the population. It
may be less than a third--certainly it is not _more_!
Equally certain is it: that every tenth man you meet in the streets of
Puebla is either a priest, or in some way connected with the holy
fraternity--and that every tenth woman is far from being an angel!
_Curas_ in robes of black silk serge, stockings of the finest texture,
and "coal-scuttle" hats, full three feet in length; friars of all orders
and colours--black and white, blue, brown, and grey--with shaven crowns
and sandalled feet, are encountered, not only at every corner, but
almost at every step you take.
If monks were immaculate, Puebla might deserve the sanctified
appellation it has received--the _City of the Angels_. As it is, the
_City of the Devils_ would be a more appropriate title for it!
"The nearer the church, the farther from God."
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