Crossword-Solution: CHAPALA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

TABLE OF CONTENTS I INTO THE COOLER SOUTH II TRAMPING THE BYWAYS III IN A MEXICAN MINE IV ROUND ABOUT LAKE CHAPALA V ON THE TRAIL IN MICHOACÁN VI TENOCHTITLAN OF TO-DAY VII TROPICAL MEXICO VIII HURRYING THROUGH GUATEMALA IX THE UPS AND DOWNS OF HONDURAS X THE CITY OF THE SILVER HILLS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS A street of Puebla, Mexico, and the Soledad Church.

The orange vendors lolling here under the shade of their hats gave the distance to Chapala as fifteen miles, and advised me to hire a horse or take passage in the stage.

From the highest point there was a pretty retrospect back on Atequisa and the railroad and the broad valley almost to far-off Guadalajara, and ahead, also still far away, Lake Chapala shimmering in the early sunset.

Maize, too, covered all the slope down to the mountain-girdled lake, and far, far away on a point of land, like Tyre out in the Mediterranean, the twin towers of the church of Chapala stood out against the dimming lake and the blue-gray range beyond.

But at least the landlord loaned me a pair of trunks for a moonlight swim in Lake Chapala, whispering some secret to its sandy beaches in the silence of the silver-flooded night.