1892 
Tenchitlan 
(Jalisco) 
* ^ 
June 
Indian Mounds 
at 
Tenchitlan 
the mountains and swept out over the plain like a dim, gray wall 
enveloping Ahualulco as though no Virgin had been there so recently. 
We were just at the outer edge of it but the blast of icy air driven 
from its centre chilled us and gave me a severe cold as a change of 
over 20° in temperature occurred in less than 5 minutes. 
After this storm passed I was riding along the plain when I saw 
a Caracara eagle chasing a half-grown hare with great spirit. The 
hare avoided the casts of the eagle by doubling and little bursts 
of speed, but the eagle was keeping in dogged pursuit and would have 
worn out the hare very soon but the latter took refuge in a hole dug 
in a small bank under a small bush. This hole ran baok about 15 in, 
and then turned abruptly to the right and was enlarged and 18 inehes 
deep and must have been the form where this hare was born, as the 
entrance was too obscure for it to have seen it otherwise, I rode 
over and captured the hare for a specimen. 
In the morning I got my men off fear Guadalajara at 6 a,m. and 
then I went a mile above town on the lava strewn hillside to the 
M Guachimonton” or ancient mounds there are there. This vicinity is 
noted for having yielded quite a number of clay images and other 
articles of elay, obsidian, and stone. So far as I could learn, 
these things were usually found under small conical piles of stones 
found on the hillsides or at edge of the level valley. 
They are usually accompanied by badly decayed fragments of human 
bones and are at a depth of S to 4 feet below the surface. 
The "Guachimonton" consists of 5 mounds of stones and earth situ¬ 
ated on a bench-like part of the rocky hillslope above the town of 
Tenchitlan. They are overgrown with small trees and bushes except 
where the circular area about base of each is cleared and planted 
to mescal. I made a rough but approximately accurate series of 
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