For permission to reprint the chapters of this book that originally appeared in _The Bellman_, I beg to thank the editor. Neither tourists nor persons of fashion seem to have discovered that the trip by water from New York to Vera Cruz is both interesting and agreeable. But perhaps to tourists and persons of fashion it wouldn’t be. For, although the former enjoy having traveled, they rarely enjoy traveling, and the travels of the latter would be pointless, as a rule, if they failed to involve the constant hope of social activity and its occasional fulfillment. By tourists I mean--and without disparagement of at least their preference--persons who prefer to visit a country in bands of from f…
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