,1894 
"where nay as si stent hunted belonged to him and that he could hunt there 
Son Andres 
Tuxtla 
(Oaxaca) 
as much as he liked. The reason for this strictness being that a few 
years since two factions of the towns people were rather unfriendly 
cror land matters and there were fire fatal hunting “accidents’* by 
which fire men of one side were shot while in company with men of the 
opposite side and all claimed to be accidents while hunting. It being 
too late to find a hotel when liberated, ray assistant was invited to 
share the quarters of the captain of the police over the jail, which 
t 
he did. 
The next day he hunted on the land where he had been arrested the 
night before and found the men and guards rery friendly. During the 
day an alarm was given that some one had been seen on the land and the 
policeman cocked his musket and then carrying it by the middle in his 
right hand he proceeded to hunt for the trespassers* Finally, not find¬ 
ing them, he uncocked the gun and began his watch again. He used charges 
of irregularly shaped slugs btrt from lead and, standing 50 yards from a 
large tree, fired at it to shew hew he could “bathe it In lead", as. 
he expressed it, Hot a slug touched the tree. 
May 15thj Today I sent off ray baggage by pack train for Alonso 
L&saro and on the 16th at 5 a,m, left, myself, for Alonso Laearo, pick¬ 
ing up ray assistant on the way. We arrived at the place at 11 a,m,, 
just as the little steamer arrived and at 6 p*m# were again back at 
Tlacotalpam, . , 
Tlacotalpam 
(Vera Crus) 
The water supply for the town is brought in large red jars in canoes 
from about 5 miles up the Rio San Juan, the head of the brackishness 
May 17 
to 
May 29 
from the effect of the tide. The tide is regular for a still greater 
distance up the GoseanJlcapara, Ho mail being here for me, I found nyself 
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