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the time of my visit and did not explore this hill. 
After my return to Cuernavaca from this trip, I had an attack of 
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diarrhea which kept with me for same weeks and ran me down very rapidly, 
This was due to the long, hard ride in the intense sun and drinking the 
water of streams here whioh are not healthy. 
(to one short tramp I made cut of Cuernavaca, I was just at the border 
of the town when a white-necked raven flew over, I shot it and it fell 
into the hedge by the roadside. While I was extricating it, a woman 
(a mestijo) cams hurriedly out of the small house just inside the hedge 
and begged me to sell her the bird. I asked what she wished to do with 
it and she said she wished to eat its heart for a remedy. I told her I 
would give her the heart, so I cut the bird open and took out its heart 
and the woman, having secured a small cup with a little brandy, put the 
still wnrss he<ort in it and swallowed it. She said it vras an excellent 
"remidlo" for palpitation of the heart from which she suffered, and was 
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profuse in her thanks. I left the raven in her care until my return 
and went on with ay companion to some bat caves about three miles out 
of town where I secured S species of bats in a dry cave at the upper 
border of the canon wall. 
In the bottom of this canon near this point are some high stone 
piers for a bridge ordered built by Santa A na, but which was never com¬ 
pleted owing to his fall from power. 
From Cuernavaca I hired saddle animals and proceeded in a south¬ 
easterly direction about 12 or 14 miles to Yautepec. The route led 
across the grassy sloping plain from Cuernavaca a few miles passing 
various small Indian villages built mainly of wattles and mud or adobe 
briok. 
The country is strewn with lava boulders from which walls are built 
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