1892 
' 
Agosto 
Vie.of 
Plantinar 
(Jalisco) 
Apr. 3 
to 
Apr, 6 
present time it might be said as one bandit has been shot near Tonila 
about 6 or 8 miles south of San Marcos &ice I came to Colima in 
February, and last year 2 were shot just south of Agosto, and four 
others a few miles north of that place. 
April 4th and 5th. This place is in the lower border of the 
pines at about 5000 feet altitude on the edge of a slope leading 
down from east base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Below, the 
bench drops down a couple of hundred feet to a lower bench on which 
is located Plantinar where a small plantain garden is located in a 
sheltered spot. This bench is cut through by the river which is at 
a still deeper level. The country all about is a fine sandy conglom¬ 
erate. The day of my arrival I visited a bat cave about lj| miles 
from Agosto by trail, but much nearer in a line. The cave is 8 to 
15 feet high and about 100 yards deep and is located just under the 
brow of the bench on which Agosto is placed and faces the lower bench. 
Formerly the road to Zapotlan led along this lower beneh and a 
large rook on top of bluff over the mouth of this oave served as a 
lookout station for the robbers who lived here. From this stone, the 
road can be seen half a league each way, and a trail leads down to 
intercept it from near the cave. The roof of the cave is thoroughly 
blackened with smoke from fires that must have been built for a long 
time well back in the cave. 
Bats are numerous here now and the road has been changed so to 
avoid this vicinity. The government is working vigorously to 
suppress the banditti, with good success. I was told at Colima that 
the common people say to one another now "We better behave now and 
not do ary mischief for people disappear now and no one knows what 
becomes of them. n This indicating the way in which the rapid taking 
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