1894 
Orizaba 
(Ter a Crus) 
San Juan 
(Ter a Crus) 
smd two large whit;© spots, one abov© each eye. She specimen I caught 
was a male and was curled up in sac® grass on his side when I approached, 
bui« instead of **poE suEiag a , sprang up, opened his mouth wide and «• swaying 
h5.s ho% from side to side - spot at me like a oat, 1 poked him with a 
st ids: and found h© did not try much to bite it but would snap savagely 
at my hat or hand when extended within his reach, I finally cau^rt him 
in sxf bauds and killed his, tk> was taken in a trail near the river. 
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about on© mile from tovm, 
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la?, 1, was taken suddenly sick at his stomach and became so weak he 
could hardly stand soon after leaving Hex, the other day, and has not 
felt sell since. He returned to Ifex, yesterday to see a doctor, 
January 21 - Have taken nothing nm of particular interest, She 
weai&er has changes and is near wet and rainy, (fee of the storms kae@n 
to the people ac sorb©* is passing over the cou&fcey, Bad colds are Just 
nom very common among the people here, some cases of which appear very 
much like la grippe, -p.l. 
Jmmarf 31 - We left# Mm City dt Qttmb® yesterday (<feau&ry 50th) a* 
S p*m* A tMb o£ om horn* 1 a duration brought us to Forfeit, the first 
station* earn# dawn a gentle slop© and crossed several b&rraneas on 
high iron bridges* the road between Qris&ba and Fortin for a par!; of 
uh© way shirts on© bank of a largo barranca going doim # then finally 
crosses and comes up for several miles along a grade until finally the 
top of the bluff la reached and then goes across the plain to Fortin* 
fee difference in altitude between the two planes is probably only about 
S^vj feat and there is little difference in the y@geta.ti on and general 
appearance of the country* fhe station of Fortin is on a large hacienda 
which produces principally coffee* W© saw soim young plants about 4 to 5 
feet in height which we were told were only three years old* They were 
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