Before he wrote Primitive Culture, the young Tylor sailed from Havana to Vera Cruz and spent months travelling Mexico on horseback. He describes the capital and its markets, the silver mines of Real del Monte, aloe fields and pulque, robber-priests and plundered coaches, and above all the Aztec remains and the people who still lived among them.
A curious, observant travel book that shows a great anthropologist finding his subject. Download the free EPUB.