1892 
En route 
to 
Hahuatzin 
(Mlohoaoaa) 
Intermingled and reach up in tall slender shoots after the sun and 
resembling a jungle growth more than cultivated plants. The luxur¬ 
iant growth and abundance of inferior fruit the trees contained show 
hoi? well such fruits would dc here with proper cultivation. 
It* several yards at the outskirts of the village the Indians were 
busy threshing* “wheat with horses driven about over it on enclosed 
circular threshing floors. Others were winnowing the grain. 
Following the trail, we passed an out of the town crossing a 
field where a farmer was scratching the soil with one of the primi¬ 
tive plows and then up into a beautiful open pine forest. The pines 
are all of F. monteguma e and grow to from 100 to 160 ft, high with 
clean trunks often 60 ft, up to the first branch. The ground over 
this divide is covered with luxuriantly growing Sac cat on grass wherever 
the forest is most open and on the summit of the divide is a beautiful 
open basin cr park surrounded by forest*-covered hills. As we came to 
the border of this, I heard an odd bind note off to the left and a 
hasty look revealed a pair Gf Imperial Ivory-billed Woodpeckers near 
the top of a large dead pine. My assistant was far in the rear with 
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the shot-gun, but my companion, Mr, a. B, Winton, ms quickly on the 
ground and stalked the birds within easy shot and fired at the nearest 
one. Both left the tree apparently unhurt and as one of then made off 
through the high tree tops a long shot with a charge of 5*s brought it 
to the ground. These were the first living birds I had ever seen of 
this species, and they are fine birds. Hear sunset we came to the bor¬ 
der of the forest on the rim of a fine basin-like open valley in which 
lies the Indian (Teraseo) town of Hahuat z in, and several smaller 
villages. 
The valley is very fertile and surrounded by more or less heavily 
wooded hills. Owing to the altitude, some 8000 ft,, and its being 
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