What is "jalapa"

Usage examples of "jalapa".

High in the mountains en route to the City of Mexico, the Jalapa air was not poisoned by our pestilential swamps.

I had not been far down the Jalapa road in years and what lay ahead for me was the unknown.

When the last mule headed toward Jalapa, I walked over to a nearby indio hut and purchased a tortilla as my breakfast.

I would wait at this spot, halfway to Jalapa, for the fray to catch up.

I told Fray Juan that you were so eager to accompany your friends to their village near the road to Jalapa that you asked to meet us along the way.

What little of them I had observed confirmed everything I glimpsed at the Jalapa fair.

As I discovered during my earlier trip alone along the Jalapa road, I knew little of how to scrounge for food or find shelter in the wilds.

Indios who tended them gave me the same dark looks that I had experienced on the Jalapa road.

Manila galleon fair was not as large as the one that took place in Jalapa for the treasure fleet because there were fewer ships on the Manila run, the cargo was much more exotic.

I had already resolved in my mind that Mateo knew I was the boy from the Jalapa fair, but the matter remained a secret unspoken between us.

The only play I had ever seen other than ones put on by the churches during religious holidays was the one at the Jalapa fair, where a grassy knoll and some blankets served as a theater.

Not a street like those in Veracruz or Jalapa, but a grand avenue long enough and wide enough to set both of those miserable towns upon it.

Recently a merchant, his son, and his indios were attacked near Jalapa by maroons.

About the time this attack was occurring near Jalapa, a hacienda near Orizaba was attacked, and the Spanish majordomo was killed, along with indios.

I spotted the acting troupe that we had detained briefly along the Jalapa road before releasing them.