1894 
San Pablo 
Yaganisa 
altitude of 3900 feet. Many bananas were growing in the yards about 
the houses, She plane is at the mouth of a canon down which flows a 
small stream into the deeper canon below* 
As we rude down the final slope to the village, we passed a number 
of women washing olothes in a small spring stream issuing in a little 
gulch beside the road, s ome of them were naked to the waist and were 
quite indifferent to our passage* Others were carrying water into 
town in large black jars siting over the forehead by a bend and hanging 
against the hips behind in a net made of maguey card. 
In the edge of town we stopped end I had one of ray men to ask one 
of the woman we saw looking at us from a doorway where we could find 
the President©, She replied that the latter had gone away and was not 
in town. I then told my men to ask for any of the officials as any of 
them would serve ray purpose to provide us a plaee to stop. After ex¬ 
plaining sy wants, the woman who had just denied the presence of the 
President© announced that she would go to his house and get him,- which 
she did in less than five minutes. He came slowly along «td stopped 
about ten or fifteen steps away as if afraid to venture nearer. I held 
out ray official letter to him but he made no motion to come nearer, Ify 
ioan explained what I wanted and he finally said I could stop at the 
municipal building at the edge of town. He then led the way and we 
crossed the village and went up on a small hill where we found the pub¬ 
lic building to be a small adobe house facing a church on the top of 
the little knoll. My first inquiries were for horse feed and same 
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fruit and eggs, The President© went away and came back carrying a load 
of corn fodder. He said there were some eggs and bananas for sale but 
did not send anyone with them and ray men had hard work to get the 
people to sell a few things although they were themselves Zapatecos. 
The President© said there were no men I could get to go with me to 
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