1892 
Zapctlaa 
(Jalisco) 
Apr^ 14 
to 
Apr. 19 
Sierra 
Uevadas 
(Jalisco) 
Apr. 20 
to 
Apr. 23 
Kept hbeu?; Znpotlan working in the valley and writing reports in 
term. 
About 2 a.a. on Good Friday, everyone in town me awakened by 
the din of largo fire crackers and the hi,is and detonation of bombs 
which were fired to notify people of the approaching church feast 
day. I tos told that this was the custom on the approach of all 
feast days. 
Ob Good Friday, the 15th, I saw the church processions in the 
courtyard of the church. The laser has prohibited the carrying of the 
groat cross bearing the figure of Christ throng the streets with, 
other similar religious processions, so It is near done inside the 
church enclosure* With some misgivings I took ay camera and worked 
nr/ my through the dense crowd into the church court and secured 
same views of the cross. The people were perfectly good-natured Shout it 
•and area cleared a space so I could get a better view, 
A striking contrast with the fanaticism I would have set with 
10 years ago when the Mrs presence of a heretic on such an occa¬ 
sion would have been dangerous to the intruder. 
In the late afternoon, the crosses were carried slowly around 
the enclosure by 40 or 50 men followed and preceded by a dense 
crowd, with a band of music just ahead of the cross. Then the cross 
ms lowered to lie almost horizontally and. carried about while a nan 
followed playing a shrill wailing note on a small kind of pipe and 
when the cross was taken to the church door the figure was removed 
to the church and the cross dismantled in the evening. 
Returned to the mountain and took a trail that led around to the 
Wit side. 
Base of Sierra Uevada (April 21). On the morning of A|ril 21 
when we arose we found that there had been an eruption of the 
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