1894 
Iztaccihuatl 
January 
City of Mexico 
(Mexico) 
Or is aba 
(Vera Cruz) 
Just below the large lateral moraines is a gently sloping benoh 
about 200 yards across on which are many huge blocks of drift boulders 
some 12 or 15 feet in diameter and the surface of the table has its sur¬ 
face bedrock polished and rounded. I have only seen occasional grooving 
of rocks anywhere on this mountain. Prom foot of glacier I descended on 
foot down the slopes of sand and loose earth by the lower point of the 
ice below central glacier. A number of cattle were grazing along the 
hillsides close to lower border of glaciers at 15,000 feet and the 
sandal tracks of the Indian herders were seen here and there. Here and 
there burnt areas showed where fires had been put out to cause a new 
growth of pasturage. Sparrow hawks were seen and the tracks of the 
small rabbit which ranges up to the limit of vegetation were common. 
At 1 p.m. I joined my assistant end outfit at upper border of firs 
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where he had put out a large set of traps for gophers and we then des- 
oended to Ameea. At 5t30 I took the train for Mexico City. 
The following evening (January 0) I was surprised to have my assist¬ 
ant turn up in the City with the report that the mountain Indians on 
Iztaccihuatl had stolen nearly all of his traps so that h© had no means 
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of continuing work and so came in. . 
January 10s Completed the work cm hand here and packed up material 
ready for an early start. 
January 11 j Started at 7 a.m. for Orizaba which we reached at 
3 p.m. I was very ill all the way on the train from a bilious attack. 
January 12 to 16thi Laid up in Orizaba with iry attack of illness. 
On latter date I seoured rooms in the house of Jacinto Hernandez and 
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moved in there. On 17th being still ill, I returned to City of Mexico 
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