ADVENTURING DOWN THE WEST COAST OF MEXICO 



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the: "house cat" oe a hotel in mazatlan (see page 496) 



In Mexico one takes certain things for granted. Boa-constrictors are far better mousers 

 than are cats, even if the boas did not invariably eat the cats when the two are in competition. 

 Therefore one obtains a boa for a mouser, if one is in a boa-constrictor country, and thinks 

 no more about it. They are docile and harmless, but do not enjoy being handled, even if they 

 do not resent it. 



