1892 
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Ahu&luleo 
(San Luis Pofcosi) 
August 
for a bed* % ©rub here 1% far breakfast: eoffee, eggs, bread and 
beans* dinnerj broth, macaroni, eggs, neat, coffee, and tortillas; 
supper: tortillas and beans. In tramping around this forenoon, I 
found in a rodky arroyo near Gam Hater a narrow leafed H v * r * of clover 
in blossom* 
colors, whits and rod* She highest part of the Country 
is composed of low hills -chose sides in laeay places are stoop cliffs* 
August 26 - Passed last night tolerably veil although bed bugs 
overran mo. Awcfe© in the night, lighted a candle, and turned ay pillow 
over,- under it there were 40 or 50 (I dida»t court them) fins ones. 
SitcEsra (4 small and X large) is sy catch front traps set yesterday 
afternoon. SW© of tho small kind w® ruined by arts; I saved the skulls 
only* 
I noticed today that in this pars of the country and at this season 
of the year, people feed their cage birds m the seed of tho pepper fcre© 
which grows abundantly in this section of country* 
If say traps yield no better tonight, I shall be rather disgusted 
not getting what X ©aaa here for. 
% lively '’oacadora'’ Isas jusrfe returned from the country on a burro, 
bringing with her among other things seme green (places, one of which 
she Isas kindly given a©. 
Tho natives here and in other parts of Mexico call bats Vabceaos 
vie^03 ? ’, meaning that they aro siies which hare lived out their lives 
and turned into what wo ©all bats, Another assse for thorn In Spanish 
is °xjarciolagos” . 
August 23 - Last night *s yield from traps consisted entirely of 
?ero:-mthus. for which 1 do not care* If I get no Hosneroaava tonight, 
X think X will return to town (Ban Luis Pofcosi ) tomorrow. 
Shis morning a boy brou^tfc m 2 iferetinasrus « 21 more bats were brought 
in today, 10 of them 7e snort ilio and tho rest Itrotinomas. I have out a 
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