1892 
Manzanillo 
(Colima) 
Feb. 1 
to 
Feb. S 
undergrowth by holding their noses straight out and creeping slowly 
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ahead. 
On Sunday. I ran across a drove of about a dozen animals called 
Te.lon by the people here. They live to a great extent on land crabs 
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and insects, but eat birds, eggs, com, and are extremely fond of 
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sweets of all kinds* 
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The bunch I saw was straying along through a low growth of small 
trees into which they all climbed when they heard me coming. I crept 
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through the bushes and before I knew it was among them and they sprang 
down all about me and scampered away to a rocky ledge on a hillside 
where they disappeared. I wounded a large one and killed a small one, 
only securing the latter. Until it died, the latter uttered a sharp 
squealing cry. 
On the 2nd inst. I made all preparations to cross the bay to work 
at a point there for a week or so, but when I went out to secure a 
boatman I was met by the announcement that every boat had gone off to 
a fiesta somewhere, and would not return for several days. One of the 
customary pleasures of Mexican travel - wait while everyone celebrates 
the feasts. Pasted on the walls of houses in the poorer quarters 
of the town here are posters banded with the national colors, red, 
white, green, and printed with announcements of the virtues of the 
virgin of Guadalupe, "Maria de Guadalupe es la m&dre de los 
Mejicaaons." In others, Marie de Guadalupe is the faith, hope, and 
salvation of the Mexicans. Others ask her to protect the household, 
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The half-caste character of the lower olass is very evident in 
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their features and very often curly black hair, thiok lips, etc., and 
show the presence of Negro blood. 
About the hotel or Pasada where I am stopping, a number of women 
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