1894 
San Miguel 
Albarradas 
San Pablo 
Yaganisa 
make me too much delay if I objected, IVhen he had the money in hand 
he exclaimed "Now it is arranged.* !1 as though nothing had been done up 
to that time. He then called up three men and divided the money up 
among them and said they would be on hand in the morning, I hoped they 
would, that I might get away from this miserable little place. 
July Zt According to plan, we found the men on hand in the morning 
and soon got under way, The road led down a long steep slope from the 
altitude of 6600 feet to 0000 feet at the bottom of the canon through 
which flows a small stream, AH the way down the slope is covered with 
scrubby oaks of 2 species which I secured and at 5200 feet down to 5000 
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were numerous Junipers of which I took a specimen. Crossing the stream, 
we climbed the opposite slope through the village of Santa Catarina 
where we entered one of the main trails from Yalalag to Oaxaca, ^his 
trail led us up a long, rough, broken slope overgrown with scrubby oaks 
and a few madronas and alders to tho crest of a high ridge at an alti¬ 
tude of 8000 ft. 
The slope we had been ascending is rather dry and the vegetation 
is small. As we reached the sieamit and descended on the other side, a 
sudden and striking change to & heavy forest of large oaks and madronas 
with a rank growth of grass and bushes in openings marked the abundant 
rainfall that occurs,this slope fronting the HE and catching the moist¬ 
ure-laden winds from, the Gulf, There were also pines growing along this 
ridge in scattered forest among the other trees. 
This is a part of the main range between idle mountains north of 
the City of Oaxaca and the group about Zempoatlepec, ^he road now led 
down long steep slopes pa sib various small Indian fields on the hillsides 
until just at evening we entered the village of San Pablo Yaganisa,- 
another small Zapoteean village like San Miguel, It is located at an 
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