Author: Mayne Reid Year: 1900 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories:
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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!
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