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may be worn coiled about the head or thrown about the person. 
Patzcu&ro 
(Michoaoan) 
As a rule, the women carry the round bladed paddles used in the 
canoes up to town with them and walk at a remarkable gait with a pe¬ 
culiar hitching motion from being pigeon-toed and having burdens upon 
their hips. At the same time, their arms hang down straight in front 
and swing together from side to side with a quick motion at each step. 
On Sundays they earn to town in swarms and at night return home, many 
of them in a state of almost helpless intoxication. At such times 
the women are generally somewhat more sober than the men and often 
bundle the latter into the canoes like so many logs, and paddle away 
over the water. 
The main landing place is at the Hacienda Ibarra. This place is 
now a small body of land bordering the lake near the town of Patss- 
ouaro which is about !§• miles back from the shore. It is said that 
some 25 or 30 years since, an earthquake here caused a large part 
of the Hacienda lands to sink. The lake is without outlet and 
surrounded by volcanic hills and many old craters to be found in 
the neighborhood. 
The Hacienda Ibarra is earned by an old man who, with his family, 
is fanatically religious. A chapel occupies a corner room of their 
building (which is a hotel) and morning and evening prayers are said 
there by all the household. 
I could not help connecting the miserable flea-infested quarters 
and niggardly table (one of the worst I have seen in Mexioo for the 
money) with this excess of religious form. In a missionary of the 
Episcopal Church I also found in Mexico that an excess of form did 
not go with practice, as he managed to get the best of me a few 
dollars by a wilful misstatement which I discovered in less than an 
hour later. He was not a fair sample of missionaries that I met, how- 
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