1892 
Guadalajara 
(Jalisco) 
June 
Tenchitlan 
(Jalisco) 
June 
Indian 
Remains 
the scene an air of almost oriental fanaticism* The arms ore held up 
this way until a certain number of prayers are said. 
The first week of June I felt 3 distinct earthquake tremors, all 
of them at night and barely perceptible, but they were nut iced by 
others. 
On June 10th, I left Guadalajara *or a trip to the west, About 
30 miles west we crossed a ridge extending southerly, rising in 
hills on both sides of the stage road. These hills were overgrown 
with small pine® and oaks, tho latter being remarkable for their ex¬ 
tremely large rounded loaves, A few miles beyond this, we readied 
the 
small and miserable town of Tenchitlan where 
several 
days. 
In the vicinity of this town are many old Indian graves which 
can be found by the small, oval pile of stones heaped up over the 
spot. Three to 4 feet below the surface in such places are often 
found clay vessels, idols (often a number of varying size in a place), 
me late*, .stone celts, obsidian flakes, or articles — and human bones 
in a bad state of decay. Occasionally the places are without ai^r de¬ 
posit. 
These burial places ere usually along the base of the low volcanic 
mountain. On the side of this mountain, about a mile in a north- 
/ 
easterly direction from town, I was shown 3 curious mounds built of 
rough fragments of lava with a small amount of earth mixed in. 
These mounds were on a rough, lava-strewn hillside on a small bench. 
They were in a northerly and southerly lire with the largest about 35 ft, 
high at north, then one about 18 or 20 ft,, and one about 9 or 10 ft, 
high in succession. They were about a half larger across base than 
their altitude. The rocks had been cleaned away in a circle about 
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