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image was truly flesh and blood but was doubtful. In order to test it 
while paying devotions at the altar she leaned forward and bit the image 
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on the calf of the leg. Her teeth all fell out on the spot and a stream 
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of blood trickled down the leg of the imageJ This town contains some 
1,200 or 1,600 people who manage to make nearly a year’s living out of 
this pilgrimage so that they are very independent about doing work of 
any kind. A surveyor who was surveying and platting the town at the in- 
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stance of the local authorities was obliged to hire men from another 
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place to assist him while I found it very difficult to get anyone to 
hire me horses, even at large prices, to make a trip to the next town. 
April 2, the next day after my arrival here, ray baggage came up to 
Ofcatitlan on another small steamer which reaches this point during low 
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water, 
April 3: Having secured horses for ourselves to make the trip to 
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Tuxteoec, it was found necessary to ship my baggage by oanoe as no 
proper paoksaddles could be found in town. When we prepared to start, 
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accompanied by a boy to bring back the horses, we found that an old 
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woman was to accompany us. She mounted astride of her horse and then, 
with a huge lighted cigar in one corner of her mouth and a tall peaked 
straw hat on her head, she made a figure that furnished me some quiet 
amusement as she ambled through the streets and out of town with us. 
Our route lay along the course of the river most of the way and the 
country is slightly rolling. W* passed several small ranches devoted 
to stock raising on a small scale and then through a belt of long forest 
full of palm trees. Finally we came out on the river bank nearly oppo- 
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(Oaxaca) site Tuxtepec and were ferried across while our horses swam over. 
Entering the town we soon found a semiprivate house where we seoured 
board and lodgings. This town is just within the state of Oaxaca, the 
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line between Oaxaca and Vera Cruz passing midway between Otatitlan and 
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