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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: …forms of politeness, that is astonishing. It is an inheritance, for this man is, after all, and after the lapse of more than three long centuries of isolation, a Spanish peasant. He is, in manners, language and religion, what he was in 1598. The Spaniard is the true Bourbon of the world, and the Bourbons were Spaniards. He never changes. This man in only isolated cases is mixed with the Pueblo. The usual idea is that the peasant of New Mexico, and the same class in Old Mexico, are alike. They are very different. In the first case he is, almost without mixture, a Spaniard; in the last he is, equally without mixture, a Tueblo, an Aztec, a Toltec, an Indian;–whatever you choose to call the original people of the country. There are reasons why this should be so, too long and speculative for discussion in a book of travel. And here you come upon a string of names that at once indicate the foreignness of the region. Here is Bernal, and later on BerNalillo. Ber-nal, a common boy’s name. He was originally a y Saint; Bem-ah-leelyo, is simply ” little Bernal.” San Miguel (Sahn Me-gail) is St. Michael. Lamy (Lah-my) is French’; the name of the Archbishop of Santa F6, Ortiz, (Or-tees), a family name. Los Cerrillos, (Lose Cer–r/-yose), little hills;–Cerro, a hill; Mo, ito, ico, &c, being Spanish diminutives, used wherever possible. Albuquerque;–originally Alforquerque (4/-boo-ker-kee), a family name, and somewhat hTstorical as having been borne by a Spanish general. Isleta; should be Ysleta; (Ees-/oy-tah), a little island. Rosario, Ro-.-z//-re-oh) a rosary. Elota (E-/i?-tah) a girl’s name. Algodones, (Al-go-flfo-nais) cotton; cotton-lands. Alameda, (Ah-lah-way-dah) a shaded walk; a road lined with shade trees. Of such names the country is ful…
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