Excerpt from Through Southern Mexico: Being an Account of the Travels of a Naturalist
This narrative is based upon two journeys through Southern Mexico during the months of June to September of the years 1902 and 1904. Eight months - most of them spent in roaming about, off the few tourist-tracks, through some rather wild and little-known districts, from the regions of snow down to the sweltering, tropical lowlands - afforded more than hasty impressions of this wonderful country.
I have tried to present to the reader the ups and downs, the enjoyments and the drawbacks, just as they happened. We, my wife and I, have no blood-curdling adventures to relate, and yet some of the incidents might have turned into such - by a hair's breadth.
As to personal safety, the actual conditions were tersely put to us only a few weeks ago: "You do not need any arms whilst travelling in Mexico, but when you do, you want them badly."
The scientific purpose of these travels was the study of the distribution of animals and plants with reference to the prevailing environmental conditions. Some of the more technical results have been published in the Proceedings of the Royal, the Zoological, and the Linnean Societies of London.
Care has been taken to mention the various creatures at the time and place that we observed them. The country swarms with life, and yet days may pass without a glimpse of anything worth relating, and the best finds are made when least expected. Full-coloured pictures of the life and scenes of a typical day's travel in the wilds, if we put them to the test, are liable to cause disappointment, since the majority of the exciting events (though each described without exaggeration) rarely happen in conjunction.
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