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traced. Many of the pure-blooded people know little or no Spanish and 
Patgcuaro 
(Michoaoan) 
they retain many of their old beliefs, although nominally Catholics. 
Patzcuaro 
to 
Salazar 
Prom Patzcuaro I went by Ilex, Hat. R.R. to Toluca where X stopped 
to secure a letter from the Governor to the local authorities. 
Near Morelia on the way I saw 23 yoke of oxen each with its driver 
and a wooden plow at work on a field of not over 10 acres. A man on 
horseback stood at one side overseeing the work. 
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Passing Lake Quitzco, Mr. Pringle told of the odd species of corn 
peculiar to that locality, Zea canina, or the "Mais covote" of the 
residents. The corn grows commonly about the foothills near Quer- 
endaro and even mixes in the fields with the common cultivated species. 
It reaches a height of 6 or 7 feet on cultivated ground, but is much 
smaller on wild land where it has to battle for its own existence. Its 
most striking peculiarity is in possessing one or more ears in the axil 
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of every leaf from base to top of stalk. 
Having secured my letter from the Governor’s office in Toluca, I 
went on across Toluca Valley to the Station of Salazar at an altitude 
of 10,300 ft. on the pass between Toluca and Mexico. This is a miser¬ 
able little settlement of woodcutters on the summit of the mountain. 
After some trouble, I found a small hut in which we arranged our 
material and began work on October 21st. 
Salazar 
(Mexico) 
The weather during all of our stay in this locality was cold and 
damp with numerous cold rains during the first week. Every morning at 
daybreak, the clouds shut in over the mountains here enclosing us in a 
heavy vapor that made the grass and bushes wet. At 8 or 9 o’clock the 
clouds would dissipate or drift away to reform again in the afternoon. 
Whenever the nights were clear, a sharp frost occurred. 
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