Chapter XI

EXCURSION ON THE TAMISSEE RIVER.--CHAPOTE, ITS APPEARANCE IN THE LAKES AND THE GULF OF MEXICO, 165

Once more in a canoe, 165 The Tamissee--its fertile banks, 166 Wages of labor--a promising speculation, 167 The Banyan.--The Royal Palm, 168 Extensive ruins.--Mounds on Carmelote creek, 169 A Yankee house.--The native Mexicans, 170 The chapote in the lakes of Mexico, 171 The chapote in the gulf of Mexico, 172 New Theory of the Gulf Stream, 172 Comparative temperature of the Gulf Stream and the Ocean, 174 Objections to this new Theory, 175 Another Theory, not a new one, 177 Tampico in mourning, 178