1892 
H&huatsin 
(Michoaoan) 
nearly midday and finally sent for the men again. The packer came 
reluctantly and evidently considered that the effort of making a 
enough 
an hour*s effort 
that I managed to get the men started in earnest to pack up. Then I 
learned that the hunter refused to go because if he went with a 
Protestant the Bishop would excommunicate him,- the Bishop chancing to 
be in town at that time. 
With the exception of the articles carried on one small burro, the 
remainder of my goods were packed on the backs of a couple of men and 
a boy who carried the heavy burdens up the steep mountainside without 
difficulty. 
It was well along in the afternoon when I pitched camp under some 
pines at the border of a grassy glade near a small spring. The tent 
being put up, I sent ray assistant out to set some traps while I arrang¬ 
ed the camp and prepared seme specimens I had in hand. The people 
who had come up with us left before dark, leaving us to ourselves. 
During the night and in the early morning as long as we stayed here 
occasional gunshots were fired and the most hideous whoops and howls 
were uttered by the watchmen in the cornfields scattered over the 
steep mountainsides in the forest where cleared areas were cultivated. 
This was to keep the wild animals out of the corn, I was told by people 
from the village. The effect of these wild cries was wild in the ex¬ 
treme and the authors of the noise looked wild and unkempt as they 
came to visit our solitary camp and stare at us and our work in stupid 
wonderment. Few of them oould talk Spanish, but they conversed together 
in Tarasoo. 
On the third day of our stay, we were visited by a couple of mount¬ 
ed and armed messengers from the President of the Council in the town 
of Nahuatzin. They bore a formidably worded document setting forth 
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