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iVv. 
Sierra 
Ilevnda 
trip 
(Jaliseo) 
Apr, 9 
to 
Apr. 13 
hair occurs in this belt. A small crimson titmouse with silky white 
auriculars was common among the firs and pines in this belt and 
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Junco caniceps with Mcrula mirratoria were common. 
On a sheltered part of the summit about 12,600 feet high are some 
small beds of snow tram, which a supply is packed on burros down to 
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Zapoilan constantly during the summer. 
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The men had their camp in the bottom of the basin-like head of 
Atenquiqui Barranca. These men ooue up here and pack the ice-like 
snow in grass and pack it down to ZapotIan,- 26 miles, half of which 
is on steep mountain trails, for SO cents per load. 
It is used mainly to make ice-cream in town. It is also taken 
as far as Sayula, SO miles beyond and was formerly taken even to 
Guadalajara. It was surprising to see these men accustomed to the 
warm low country coming up here in their ordinary clothing of thin 
cotton trousers, shirt, and sandals. They manage to sleep a little 
at night by keeping a fire going. 
We camped in a grass-roofed hut of the snow gatherers* and our 
men shivered and built fires all night to keep themselves warm. In 
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■idle morning a thin sheet of ice had formed over a pool of water by 
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Two Mexicans volunteered to go up on the mountain with me from 
Zapoilan,- the secretary of the Jefe Politico and a Haclesdado. 
Both spent hours trying to give me a favorable view of Mexican life 
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and people by telling me of the good qualities of their soldiers 
and the reputed action of Colonel Martinez in refusing an enormous 
bribe to permit Maximilian to escape. They added that after the 
close of the war. Col. Martinos resigned his command and returned 
to his home refusing all offers of office or reward for his services, 
and being a poor man he gained his livelihood by burning charcoal and 
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