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At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

~Edward Burnett Tylor

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If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

~Edward Burnett Tylor

Topics: Cannot Cuba Get Go Man Married Married Man Next Passport Permission Resident Town Wife Without Writing You Your

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Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.

~Edward Burnett Tylor

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Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

~Edward Burnett Tylor

Topics: Absence Among Cannot Children Common District Healthy Here Look People Proper Say Seem Statistics Strong Though Undertake Very Whether

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During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

~Edward Burnett Tylor

Topics: Great Lake Mexico Period Valley Whole

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Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.

~Edward Burnett Tylor

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Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.

~Edward Burnett Tylor

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Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

~Edward Burnett Tylor

Topics: Either Everything Mexican Really Spanish

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I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

~Edward Burnett Tylor

Topics: Afraid Always Am American Regard Spanish Strict Truth Very I Am

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One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.

~Edward Burnett Tylor

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: October 2nd, 1832

Died: January 2nd, 1917

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