. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 140 MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA, WEST INDIES. Villa Juarez, from the most distinguislied of its citizens, the Juarez who main- tained Mexican independence against Maximilian. In the eastern part of Oaxaca the chief town is Tehuantppec, or "Tiger Mountain," an old city of the Huabi people, which was founded at an epoch previous to the Zapotec occupation of the land. It is the only place in the district deserving the name of " town," and it is so completely divided into separate quarters by mounds and ridges that it has rather the as
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 140 MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA, WEST INDIES. Villa Juarez, from the most distinguislied of its citizens, the Juarez who main- tained Mexican independence against Maximilian. In the eastern part of Oaxaca the chief town is Tehuantppec, or "Tiger Mountain," an old city of the Huabi people, which was founded at an epoch previous to the Zapotec occupation of the land. It is the only place in the district deserving the name of " town," and it is so completely divided into separate quarters by mounds and ridges that it has rather the aspect of a group of villages. In the vicinity are some magnificent palm and orange groves, and gardens yielding choice fruits. While proud of its past, Tehuantepec is still more confident of its future, as controlling one of the future commercial highways of the world. The railway Fig. 59.—Salina Ceitz, the new Poet of Tehuantepec. Scalp I : 60, Dep hs 0 to 5 Fathoms. ."i Fathoms and upwards. _ 2,200 Yards. across the isthmus is making rapid progress, and has already surmounted the highest passes of the hills between the two oceans, so that the coffee grown on the Pacific slope is now often forwarded by the overland route, saving several thousand miles between Central America and Europe. About nine miles to the south-west lies the old port of Tehuantepec, on a badly sheltered bay, which would have to be protected by expensive hydraulic works to make it suitable for its future traffic ; meanwhile choice had to be made of Saliiia Cruz Bay, where the shipping finds some shelter behind a pier at the terminus of the interoceanic route. East of Tehuantepec, on the strips of sand between the lagoons and the sea, are Gcattered some 3,000 Huabi fishers, the last of a race whose ancestors contended. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may no
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