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Of all the interesting data relative to Mexico, now given publicity with renewed zest— because of its latest revolution —that concerning the infinite variety of its inhabitants takes precedence. For Mexico, as has oft been stated before, is ethnologically one of the most interesting countries in the world, with its numerous Indian tribes speaking 63 languages and 110 dialects.
As the Indians of Mexico constituting three-fourths of the entire population, are naturally agriculturists, differing radically and by habit from the red men of the North—who are hunters and meat eaters— the preponderate population may be termed "rural," constituting almost exclusively villagers.
The village is a necessity for protection from roving bands of bandits—in the most sparsely settled parts of the republic—which in the past, even in times of peace, have had an unsavory way, now and then, of swooping down upon the unprotected small farmer and demanding "toll." The "haci-endado," or great farmer, lives within the walls of his walled-in, feudal-like domicile, where everything he owns is safely ensconced, except the growing crops themselves.
In these rural villages the small farmers have their home, and it is necessary for them to go Out into the country each day, often for long distances, in order to cultivate their lands. There are no isolated small farms, as in the United States. It is a matter of communal living (though independent farming) similar to that conducted by the French "habitants" in the Canadian Province of Quebec.
As a rule, in Mexico the rural population is sparse, the
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villages small and far apart. But the village or town of even 2000 population is classed as "urban" and will imitate the larger cities, almost invariably, with its little plaza or park surrounded by the municipal palaces, the -principal church and the inevitable "portholes" —that remnant of mediaeval architecture without which no self-respecting Mexican town or city could exist—at once a promenade, a civic center, a trade mart and an architectural "tradition."
In Northern Mexio, where the rainfall is less than 20 inches or 50 cubic centimeters,, which is insufficient for crops, the sparsity of population is at once apparent as your train makes its way southward and through long arid stretches with less than five inhabitants to the square kilometer. A long kilometer is equal to 0.621 statute mile.
Irrigation, when possible, or mining solves the problem of substance in such areas, but in the absence of either the lands are devoted to grazing. Even more serious conditions prevail in the extreme northern portion, where, with a rainfall of less than 10 inches or 25 cubic centimeters, the average rural population is less than one person to the square kilometer.
The three conditions that control density of rural population in this country are rainfall, altitude and' "relief" through distribution of products by railway and other means. So-called "relief" relates to transportation facilities and other important considerations, in creating centers of density; a large proportion of the rural small town inhabitants is engaged in trade or transport, even though on a simple scale, founded and dependent upon agriculture.
And so it is not strange that we find the more densely populated areas of Mexico to be two-thirds of the way down toward the southern extremity of that enormous territory so resembling in shape the lower half of a huge fish, with the finny tail represented by the States of Chipas, Campeche, Tabasco and Yucatan.
The greatest area of density has for its center the capital, Mexico City. It reaches, in modofied form, to Guadalajara in the west, San Luis Potosi in the north and Oaxaca in -the south. The rural population rises in the more favored sections of this immense area to over 20 persons per square kilometer, which corresponds to that of our Middle Atlantic States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where rural population is densest.
The Mexican capital sits in the midst of a great plateau especially favored by all possible conditions for successful agricultural pursuits. Transportation facilities, market and ideal rainfall add their quota in giving 50 to 60 rural inhabitants per square kilometer and even more, just as in the environs of some of our own large cities in the United States. Other Mexican cities similarly well situated are To-luca, capital of the State of Mexico; Puebla, of the State of Puebla; Morelia, capital of Michoacan; Leon, a leading city of the State of Guanojuato, and Guadalajara, second city of size and importance in the republic, capital of the great State of'Jalisco.
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Articles descriptive of Paraguay often state that the population of that country is largely a mixture of Spanish and Guarani Indian. The reader gets the impression that real live Guaranis are still to be found in Paraguay.
While there are plenty of wild Indians in portions of the country, no living man ever saw a pure-blood Guarani. Inhabiting the fluvial and easily accessible sections, they were conquered and assimilated by the Spanish centuries
ceasing to exist as a separate people. While almost every one in Paraguay, except recent comers, has some Guarani blood, nobody has muclt of it.
Such being the case, it is amazing how the Guarani dialect, features and habits and characteristics have persisted. The desperately brave resistance Paraguay made against overwhelmingly large armies from Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, fighting till the male population was almost exterminated, is sufficient proof of the virility of the Guarani stratn.
The common people of Paraguay speak Guarani more readily than Spanish, and nearly all place names are in that language.
It is a very simple tongue, with almost no verbs, few adjectives and adverbs, and a total vocabulary of less than
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Oddly enough, the word jaguar is not Spanish and is seldom used by Spanish-Americans, who call the beast tigre. It comes from the Guarani yag-uar-e.
Cleanliness was a virtue of the Guaranis. No matter how ragged and dilapidated a Paraguayan peon may be, his clothes and his person are clean. That he was not unskilled in certain artistic crafts is shown by the exquisite nan-duty lace, peculiar to Paraguay, the most sheer, cobwebby, delicately beautiful thing of its kind in all the world. The art of making it is unfortunately being lost.
A Paraguayan may well be proud of a strain of Guarani blood. His red-skinned forebears have transmitted to him fine traits of courage and honesty.
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