1894 
Yacochi 
considerable number of the packers were carrying corn to neighboring 
villages where the people are wholly dependent on outside supplies as 
the crop throughout this district was a fail-ore last year owing to too 
heavy rains* The houses on the steep slopes about the village here are 
all built in niche like terraces cut In the hillslope and the cultivat¬ 
ed land is so stoop that in many places no oxen could be used* I saw 
stones started and roll with accelerating speed from top to bottom of 
otio of those hills through tho growing com. The hill is covered with 
gig-sag trails laid out so to take advantage of the slope* In all deal¬ 
ings xdth tho people here they shewed the greatest distrust eves in the 
simplest things and invariably daraanded pay in advance before doing even 
the slightest service* The “Tupil” who did our wood and water bringing 
tiurtmghourts our 8 days* stay her® made a rule to tho last of never bring¬ 
ing a Jar of water oven from a spring about ICO yards away without first 
demanding and receiving his pay. Taking such trails in consideration 
with the fact that no service whatever would be rendered by most of the 
people and it was evident -that the so people wore not pleasant ones to 
bo among. In addition to this, in two or throe instances in which they 
had tho opportunity, they stole such things as possible from us and the 
Alcalde nt twice caught trying to steal a mat worth about 12 cents* 
July 10th! Today I made a trip up to the snumit of Souat Zempcalte- 
pec and found by ay Aneroid that instead of having an altitude of 13,100 
feet as given on ty map, it really has only about 11,400 feet* I was 
certain that it could not have tho height given as soon as we reached 
Yacochi and I saw the peak close by* On the slopes about Yacochi and 
extending thence up to about 9000 feet on tho western and 8W slope of 
the mountain cleared areas planted to corn or overgrown with low second 
growth brush extend in points and island-like spots among the oalc timber 
that covers all unreclaimed areas of the western slope of this mountain 
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