1892 
Tenehitlan 
(Jallseo) 
June 
Market 
It rat lan 
(Jallseo) 
June 
tains of the former state of affairs. The roofs are nearly all 
surrounded by low walls pierced with loopholes for musketry. 
Tenehitlan is a miserable place where everyone seems to be too 
lifeless to get up an interest in anything. On Sunday, however, the 
country people flocked in and all along on© side of th© plaza the 
street was filled with booths or awnings of cotton cloth or mats 
raised on sticks under which mats were spread on the ground and upon 
them were displayed a great variety of fruits, vegetables, and food. 
The men in their clean white cotton trousers and blouses, with 
scarlet blanket or varied serape thrown over one shoulder and broad- 
rimmed sombrero,- with an occasional ranohero or baquero with orna¬ 
mental buckskin elothingj the women in calico with a black or 
plainly colored rebozo over their heads, all made a sight worth 
seeing. Under a portal of the stores fronting the plasa next the 
booths was a striking display of the dull, brick-red pottery made 
and used throughout the country. The fruits, etc,, were arranged 
in little piles placed with fantastic regularity on the mats and 
usually valued at 1 cent, but often a quart ilia or medio* s worth 
are put in a pile. 
Others sold cigarettes, called "cigarros", and little boxes of 
wax matches. The people were very plain-featured, and are mainly 
of the mixed or Mestizo blood. 
On Monday I took the diligenoia for Iteatlan and passing down 
the valley through miles of tequila fields passed the town of 
Ahualulco and finally swung around the point of some low mountains 
and entered Itsatlan. As we entered Ahualulco, we passed a long train 
of mules loaded with mescal plants taking them to the tequila at ill,- 
the plants halved, and 4 halves on eaoh mule. 
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