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Manzanillo 
(Colima) 
(Vicinity) 
Feb, S 
to 
Feb. 14 
narr m peninsula between sea and lagoon, I followed a trail leading 
back into the bashes ana soon mm to a oouplo of palm-leaf thatched 
houses built of wattled sticks woven into upright posts. % some 
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shouting and hurrying out. the people rescued me from a peck ox half— 
starved ours and i was abl© to arrange to stop here with the ranch 
m, Eusebio Hosario. % effects were soon brought up and we put out 
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some traps about there. That night we slept on a couple of benches 
and 1 was nearly devoured by fleas. 
«e ate inside the house which has an uneven earthen floor* A 
wicker, or hurdle-worked partition divided the family sleeping room 
from the larger general apartment over which the high, steeply pitched 
roof made a dim and smoke-blackened cap, She light streaming in 
through innumerable chinks in the walls served to give everything a 
dark and shaded air even at midday. 
At the end of the room a stand supported a stone metate end long 
grinding stone beside which a larger stand supported an enrthen- 
ooated fire place where a small fire of dry wood was used to cook by. 
During several hours each day, a woman stood behind the instate labor¬ 
iously grinding corn that had been soaked until it made a kind of 
paste as ground. Then, when a supply of this was prepared, the woman 
spent other hours patting small lumps of this paste into small, round, 
thin cakes which were baked on a metal plate over the fire and are 
called tortillas, and form the staple bread of the country. Everywhere 
one goes, the steady pat-pat-pat of the tortilla makers’ hand* my be 
hoard, and wherever a family is large or six or eight persons are fed, 
a large part of one woman * s time is occupied in the manufacture of 
this bread. At our hotel in Manzanillo, from before daylight till 
after dark, this sound is heard almost constantly. 
The morning after our arrival, we found that our traps gave us 
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