1894 
v *. . 
Tlacotalpan 
(Vera Crus) 
May 17 
to 
May 29 
Vera Cruz 
(Vera Cruz) 
Orizaba 
(Vera Cruz) 
out of funds, and put in my tine getting reports up to date. Finally 
I learned that my mail had been sent to Faso San Juan the first of 
May, By telegram from that place, I learned that nothing had been re¬ 
ceived there. 
During my "waiting here I did some hunting and particularly learned 
something of the habits of the curious rail-like Montezuma 1 s chicken 
or po-pos-cal. 
At this place I have met a number of Americans searching for coffee 
landj several have been over considerable of the country and are now 
preparing to buy near Faso s an Juan at an altitude of from 800 to 700 
feet above sea level, ^here at a place called Buena Vista is located 
Dr, Coder ill, a son of Senates* Cockrill of Missouri, A large number of 
Americans have come to Mexico within the past few months looking for 
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coffee lands, but only a small percentage make actual purchases and 
start to cultivating the coffee, 
Chi May 30th I took steamer for Alvarado and thence proceeded to 
Vera Crus, The U,S. Consul there told me that about 10 op 12 people a 
wed; are dying here now of yellow fever, mostly among people from the 
other parts of the country, or foreigners. He says that the natives 
suffer but little from it. 
May 31stj At 1 p,m, today we took the train for Orizaba, On the 
way up X again paid especial attention to the great number of drift 
boulders lying scattered over the plain between 600 and 1000 ft, along 
the line of the R,R, With them is a bed of conglomerated drift, gravel, 
etc, below, and I am much inclined to believe that the entire deposit 
is of glaoial origin, 
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