OLD CHURCH AT TLALPUJ AIIUA, MEXICO 



Tlalpujahua is in the region inhabited by the Tarascan Indians, which lies due west of 

 Mexico City. According to Prescott, the Tarascans had a Noah, called Trezpi, who escaped 

 from a great flood in a boat laden with animals. Instead of a dove, Trezpi sent out a vulture 

 first, and then a humming-bird, according to the legend. The methods of courtship in vogue 

 among the Tarascans are peculiar. The lover goes to the spring where the object of his 

 affection is accustomed to fill her water J jar. He holds her shawl until she accepts him, and 

 then, with a stick, he breaks the jar which she holds on her head and gives her a betrothal 

 baptism of water. These Indians once possessed the secret of tempering copper, an art now 

 losl ti i the world. 



