1892 
Nahuatzin 
(Miehoacan) 
our stay. They seemed to bo much attached to one another, and if one 
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•was killed its companion would not leave the locality, they were ex- 
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cessively tenacious of life, and were very difficult to kill as a 
consequence, £ 
Our camp was at about 8500 ft,, and I found an Arvicola, a Sorex. 
Orygarays. Sitorays , and Reithrodontews ooxraaon, as were also the 
Geosqys conation to the high pin© bolt, A large Mephitis was found in a 
cornfield and also a Prooyon, A f m squirrels ( Soinrus) were found 
here ranging up to 9500 ft. They and the same large Lepus found in 
the woods at Fatzcuaro occur sparingly here. 
Having completed ray work at this camp, we packed up and descended 
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to the town, Mr, Winton and I took a hunt on the way down and, as it 
chanced, I got on the slope of a canon which was so steep and covered 
with pine needles that ray shoes soon became so slippery that I fell 
repeatedly and could only progress by making a sliding run from one 
tree to another diagonally dam the slope. In several instances where 
I missed ray goal by falling I would bring up some distance down the 
slope pretty thoroughly shaken up. After over an hour of this, I 
reached a trail and soon joined my companion as he descended the 
point on an easy trail. 
In the midst of the second-growth pines near the suxanit by the 
border of an old field, he had found a magnificent white rose bush 
growing up among the foliage of a pine and marking the site of an 
old watch hut. The strange presence of this flower is an illustra¬ 
tion of the love of flowers which is characteristic of the Indians in 
most of the country I have visited, I saw large, fine, white and 
magnificent deep red roses growing in wild luxuriant beauty in yards 
in Hahuatsin and other villages and the bush on the hill had undoubt¬ 
edly been planted there by the people who cultivated the field. 
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