1895 
Acapulco 
(Guerrero) 
Oats great cause of the unhealthiness of this locality is due to the 
great change in temperature between night and day. The ordinary tempera¬ 
ture in shade during the middle of the day ms from 78 to 84°, while at 
damp this change 
is a severe one and deaths from consumption are numerous. During my stay 
I contracted a very severe cold which laid me up on the road. 
Gold is reported to have been found in small grains and nuggets in 
the snail streams casing out of the hills near town here but no effort 
has been made to develop any placers or other mines or even to prospect. 
The authorities hers are said not to look favorably on any work of this 
kind. 
On January 9th we mad© a trip along the coast in a canoe to the bay 
of El Marques, a small bay lust south of Acapulco bay, whore it is said 
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that Cartes refitted his boats while working on this coast. This may be 
a legendary idea with snail foundation. At the Marques we stopped at 
the ranch or Hacienda del Potrero and stayed for several days collecting. 
The house where we stayed is built on a sand ridge within 100 yards of 
the open seashore and the nights were very damp and cold. On© unexpect¬ 
ed thing noted along the coast here is the scarcity of sea fowl, A few 
black sklm.-i.ers, Man-o-War birds, and Brown Pelicans were all that were 
noted. Ho sea weeds were seen either in Acapulco bay or elsewhere along 
the shore. 
During our stay on the coast the weather remained clear but a faint 
smokiness in a. layer over the sea Showed the presence of a thin humid 
belt. 
The Hacienda del Potrero has about 5000 line trees in a very neg¬ 
lected state and full of mistletoe and other parasites, Qa the brush 
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grown sand dunes border tog the shore at this ranch are thousands of 
large rabbits and about the coco&nut groves are many squirrels which 
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