1895 Alcalde where we spread out our effects and got to work. For the next 
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Tetele del four days we lived here, having our meals brought in by a woman from 
Voleen 
one of the houses of the vicinity. Find it net been for- the official 
letter I carried, it would have been very difficult for us to have 
got along here owing to the indifference of the people, I he only ex¬ 
ception was the secretary of the local judge or alcalde, 
Ee was a fairly intelligent fellow, but with education enough to 
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read and write fairly well, seamed utterly ignorant of outside life. 
He asked various childlike questions about my country and among other 
things that he told me as being strange to him was the putting of man¬ 
ure on land, He could not understand what sense there was in buying 
fertilizers and putting on lane as he had heard people did sometimes 
in the valleys. (Me of the villagers recalled the fact that all 
; ’Te rills'* (Yankees) live on raw meat and are very tall men (6 feet or 
more). To this I replied that I was a Yehki and was less than 6 feet 
and ate the same food as ha did as he had seen. But to this he ob¬ 
jected, saying that I could not be a Yehki for he knew that they were 
all very big men who live on raw meat for he had seen one once and he 
ato raw meat and was very big. To this his companions assented and 
evidently discountenanced xry claim to being a member of the raw meat 
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eating nation. They decided that I was a Frenchman after due consulta¬ 
tion,- when. I asked them what countryman I was if not a l'enki. 
One and of the building where I stayed was divided off into a 
calaboose and a guard room, The veeinos were on guard here all the 
time. At 3 a.m. the new guard came’ in and relieved the guard of the 
day before and then at first sign of dawn sets of guards armed with 
muskets or carabines went out in 3 different directions along the 
roads and spent the day in patrolling and watching roads and paths 
through the forost,- to the limits of the community line at border 
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