Observing "Man" in Situ: Edward Burnett Taylor's Travels Through Mexico
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In the spring of 1856, I met Mr. Christy accidentally in an omnibus at Havana. He had been in Cuba for some months, leading an adventurous life… and visiting all sorts of people from whom information was to be had.
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