1892 
Extending back train this lake a re some small flats covered with 
Morelia 
(Miehcacan) 
July 
Querendaro 
(Michoaean) 
s' 
August 
mesquites, acacias, pepper-trees, and a dozen or more other small 
trees beside a large number of large tree-like Opuntias with flat 
leaves. Pelicans, cormorants, grebes, wood ibis, herons, and 
bitterns were conspicuous birds on this lake and X secured several 
species of fishes from it at Querendaro, 
On my return from Patzeuaro the first of August, I stopped here 
at Querendaro for a few days and was hospitably taken care of by 
the agent of the R.R. at this place, setting up my cot in the depot 
baggage room. 
Stopping her© at this time was a young Mexican gentleman who 
came here from the City of Mexico to see if he could not be bone- 
fitted by the air for his weak lungs, Ee had a quick intelligence 
and had with him several scientific works which he was studying and 
had quite a good knowledge of the genera of plants. Be was very 
liberal In his sentiments politically, but was very bitter against 
the present government, speaking of General Dias as "that tiger", 
iia expressed great admiration for the Americans because they were 
educated and intelligent enough to govern themselves in a democratic 
way, and considered it due to th© character of the people who first 
colonized the country, To the Spaniards he laid most of th© fall¬ 
ings of the Mexican people and their ignorance, and said that all 
their misery and bad government; came from the ignorance of the 
masses, 
"While quite right in many of his deductions, ho showed the 
unreasoning impulsiveness of his race in his rabid denial of all 
t . 1 * 
good in the present government and claimed that a state of revolu¬ 
tion was better than the present dictatorship under the guise of a 
republic, - 94 - 
