Agosto 
to 
Zapotlan 
(Jalisco) 
Apr. 6 
chapel and the priests only ome to them on special invitation to 
perform services of any kind for which they always receive nay. 
There are still some considerable Indian villages about here, 
the Indians being only little. If any, less civilized than the peon 
class of Mexicans. 
The large Indian villages have a governor or chief of their own 
selection and he, with his advisers, rules the village or tribe if 
there are smaller dependant village®, and appoints the chiefs of the 
chapel®. He is applied to by the authorities to keep peace in his 
community and to capture end turn over to the law any offenders in 
his tribe at the request of the proper officials. This they do, 
and the Indians give very little trouble and ere in all practical 
ways self ••governing. 
Sierra 
Nevada 
trip 
(Jalisco) 
Apr. 9 
to 
Apr. 13 
On April 9th I left town for the Sierra Uevada on a 4 days* trip. 
The pines come down to about 6000 feet on the border of the western 
side of the valley and the mountain slopes up gradually to 8500 ft, 
and thence the rise is continuous and very steep up to the top at 
about 14000 feet. The last 1000 feet is in the form of a pinnacle 
ear rocky point difficult to climb for the final 600 feet. The 
mountain on the north slope is heavily wooded in a series of belts. 
First, a lower pinej 2nd, oaks and pinesj 3rd, firs, pines, and 
birchesj and 4th, the barren sunsait. 
The most interesting animals taken were some Arvicola which swarm 
in the dense grass growing in the pines and firs from 9000 to 
12^500 ft. 
o 
tilfln 
In this same belt on a subsequent visit, I found a shrew to be 
on. Also a form of the Sltoanys leucopus group with very heavy 
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