Expedition in Southwestern Mexico 347 



ing utensils, and supplies of all kinds, 

 in addition to the specimens collected 

 between shipping points. With this 

 outfit, Mr. Goldman and myself, with 

 our man, traveled about one thousand 

 miles through a little-known country 

 during the next few months. We were 

 at home wherever night overtook us, 

 only asking the place to furnish water, 



of about 12,000 feet. This is near tim- 

 ber line, and the scrubby pine (Pinus 

 hartwegi), tree alders, and bunch grass 

 growing there were characteristic of the 

 plant life found in the timber-line belt 

 on all of the higher mountains of south- 

 ern Mexico. In February we reached 

 Mt Tancitaro, a little farther to the 

 south. This mountain is over i 2 ooo 



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Photo by Goldman 



Tarascan Houses, Cirosto, Michoacan 

 Notice the Projecting Wooden Pegs on the Roofs, also the Roofs to the Gates 



fuel, and grass. Traveling in this way 

 has its irksome features, such as the 

 daily packing and loading of the outfit, 

 which takes an hour or more, but as a 

 compensation one tastes all the joy of a 

 wild free life under the open sky. 



In January we passed some time work- 

 ing on Mt Patamban, in Michoacan. 

 The summit of this peak has an altitude 



feet high, and at the time of our visit 

 the upper 1,000 feet of the north slope 

 was covered with snow. Before mak- 

 ing camp on Mt Tancitaro we made a 

 preliminary visit to the western slope to 

 find a good situation. Early in the 

 afternoon we stopped in the dense for- 

 est on the mountain side, and while 

 there heard a heavy subterranean report 



