1892 
Kahuat z in 
(Mlchoaoan) 
surrounded by still higher peaks, the climate is cool, and fall and 
winter frosts occur. A small-eared corn with small sharp pointed 
kernels, something like large popcorn, does well here, A large pro¬ 
portion of the ears are bluish, Wheat also does well here as do pears 
and apples. In fact, any orops suitable to a temperate climate. This 
district was once a noted robbers* range and the peaceable Inhabitants 
still dislike being out at night. 
Only a few years since the soldiers raided one of the neighboring 
villages and captured twenty-five men accused of being robbers,- all 
of whom were sentenced to prison or more summary punishment. 
The valley is largely devoted to the cultivation of corn, and long 
open roads are left crossing the fields at right angles so that at 
their intersection a person can command a view to the borders of the 
fields. In such places and also so to command the borders are erected 
platforms, on 2 or 4 upright posts, some ten or IS ft, from the ground. 
From these places, watch is kept day and night over the fields to keep 
out thieves and predatory animals, dogs, coons, opossums, and deer. 
Frequently a small straw or thatch-walled hut with a sloping thatched 
roof is erected on these posts to shelter the watchmen. In addition 
to these, small huts are usually found erected on slopes at the bord¬ 
ers of fields to shelter watchmen, The night shut down on us as we 
rode down into the valley which looked like a deep black pit as we des¬ 
cended into it. 
At length we came into the narrow cobble-paved streets of Nahuatain 
and, winding about for same time in the darkness, finally found a man 
who guided us to the house of one of the protestant converts here,- 
my companion on the road having been Mr. G. B, Winton who is a Method¬ 
ist missionary on a visit to this part of his field. 
Ere long we brought up by a wooden fence before a house from which 
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