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January 8 
an amusing timidity on several of the steep long slopes and kept talk¬ 
ing about the horses falling down the hill whenever we stopped. On 
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the road I saw a RecWfcailed Hawk at 13,000 feet near Iztaccihuatl, and 
a number of 
were seen at about the same altitude. Hear 
our samp on Iztaoeihuatl, at 13,400 feet, I was quite surprised to have 
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a covey of Masseaa quail suddenly whir up from before xny horses* foot, 
this was elose to extreme upper timberline. In talking with my hunters 
who are old sulphur gatherers, they tell me that men used to work from 
15 to 30 days at a time in the crater and made from #3, to #5, a day 
according to the amount of sulphur gathered as they got 374’ cents for 
each 26 pounds, They said that they often became ill from the sulphur 
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fumes. At night they slept warmly in small cave-like shelters at 
bottom of crater. Their work was done in early morning and late in 
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afternoon as during the middle of the day the warmth of sun thawed idle 
rooks loose about walls and they were continually falling, rendering it 
too dangerous to do any work then, 
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In the evening, in our cave shelter at 13,600 feet, a single bat 
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kept flying about but vre were unable to capture It, At our camp at 
11,000 feet on Popocatepetl, a single bat was seen to fly out from a 
hollow stub at dusk so it is evident that some of these animals winter 
in the mountains here. 
Between timber line and the lower border of the snow on this mountain 
the exposed edges of heavy beds of porphyry are worn rounded and smooth 
in many places so that in certain lights the rounded glacier worn bosses 
retain polish enough to reflect the light and glisten faintly. This is 
particularly noticeable just at sunset. 
Rode up to the foot of oliff forming head of the White »oaan, Found 
there a dying glacier descending from the upper part of breast and 
hemmed in on HW side by the head. The glacier has two large lateral 
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