1994 
Yacochi 
1895 
Acapulco 
(Guerrero) 
that price and after some talk and reference to my official letter, I 
managed to get the price down, to $1,12 each which I agreed to as the 
two old scoundrels said I could haw no men unless I paid that price. 
It is with feelings of great relief that we pack up to leave this in¬ 
hospitable place, 
| ' > • 
"While at Yacochi, I obtained a few names of birds and mammals, They 
call the peek Ze-hual-ti-pec, but at Totontepec it Is called Zempoalte- 
pee, ' i ■_ 
Bird names 
Mammal names 
Chamaeospiza - yuk-puh / 
Civet Cat 
■m 
Dark colored thrush - yak-tsin 
Heteromys 
** 
Flicker - Jm-ym' 
Arvieola 
m 
Catherpes mex, - sa-visrh 
Sitomys 
m 
Dondrortyx mac, - lcoh~shk 
Geoays 
m» 
Trogon - tau 
Rabbits 
m 
Large Summer - sucks f ^ 
Squirrel 
m 
Blk. Red-tail hawk - wis-tsun 
Deer 
*» 
Woodpigeon - muhs 
Shrews 
ihkh 
ales 
nab.sk 
v, / 
aks-kak, 
K£oh-pu-u J 
wf-nts 
On January 1, 1895, we left our camp at La "^enta de Aguacatillo and, 
crossing a sandy flat ascended to the top of a low ridge, IVora the top 
of this pass at about 1000 feet, we could see the ocean end across to 
the shore of the bay lay the town of Acapulco, about 6 miles beyond. 
Descending the steep rocky slope we cam© to a gate and custom house 
where all articles entering the town pay portaggo duties, %• use of my 
letters, I managed to get our outfit through without examination, Des¬ 
cending to the narrow plain which lies between the foothills and the 
bay glimpses of the sea were seen but soon shut off by the cocoanut 
groves scattered along the shore. The hills are lying all about the 
oval bay forming the harbor. This bay is Z or 4 miles across and is 
partly shut in from, the sea by a couple of rooky islands, caking a fin© 
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