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Gentlemen are not supposed to speak to any but their most Intimate 
Colima 
(Colima) 
lady friends and then only the briefest formality. Only near relatives 
are supposed to promenade with a lady and this is not usual, even for 
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a husband to go with his wife. 
Armeria 
(Colima) 
I returned to Armeria this morning. Found that my assistant had 
secured but a few possums and a coon in his traps here* 
Feb* 22 
Feb* 23 
to 
Feb* 29 
Remained here during this period soouring the country for mammals* 
Secured 4 fine specimens of the wild hog (Peccary) and a deer (male) 
with one antler crippled. The only way to get these animals here in 
the dense undergrowth where they are found is to find a "Moho” tree 
where some of the nuts have fallen and sit down there and wait 
patiently for hours till seme animal comes along. By doing this, 
one morning I secured a fine male pig. He led a small drove of his 
oompanions along through the brush and came in sight 40 yards off, 
quite unsuspiciously. He stopped there an instant, in a position 
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where I could see about half of the middle of his body between the 
trees, and I fired outting him down in the loins and killing him in* 
stantly. His oompanions instantly vanished in the brush and although 
I waited there until evening, not another animal showed up except 
ground pigeons and ohachalaccas, The latter are extremely common here 
and are very noisy. Their call note is heard the entire day and if 
one goes through the woods with the utmost silence he will be assailed 
every hundred yards or so by a series of discordant shrieks and clatt¬ 
ering notes fresn the densely vine-matted top of adjacent tree tops. 
Four to 6 or 8 are oonraonly together, and while sitting under the Uoho 
trees waiting for game, these birds were seen feeding about on the 
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ground with much the habits of turkeys. 
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