1896 
Oaxaca keeping along the coast through the low hills and across level 
San Marcos stretches. On the 30th we reaohed San Marcos, a village of perhaps a 
couple of thousand people, l>uring the 29th, Goldman had a severe chill 
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on the road and that night a high fever. W« failed to reach any stop- 
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ping place until after dark. Then we found a small group of wicker huts 
before same of which were burning small fires about which the women were 
cooking supper. Riding up to the first of these, I asked if we might 
stop for the night and was granted a ready assent. The people were 
part Indian and part Negro blood. They were well disposed and very 
civil. While we made our arrangements for the night, various villagers 
came up and sat about watching us curiously but with unobtrusive manners. 
The children were running about naked and the woman was naked to the 
waist, a calico skirt tied about the waist by a string being her only 
garment. For a small sum she let- me have her wattle bed under a shed 
in front of the house where I slept. The raw air, added to the soreness 
of my throat so that when we reached San Uaroos I felt compelled to give 
up going farther until it was better. Goldman also was sick from the 
fever so that both of us had the pleasure of being invalids at the same 
time. Fortunately we found a comfortable place to stop at the house of 
Senora Margarita Quinones, 
January 31st to February 8thj We remained at San Marcos. I had a 
severe sore throat and inflamed bronchial tubes which were very diffi¬ 
cult to cure. Fortunately it finally began to leave me (the inflamma¬ 
tion) without any present serious consequences. As already noted, San 
Marcos contains several hundred (1200 to 1500) people. They are Indian 
and mixed bloods (Negro) and are a rough brutal lot of savages. The 
fall of 1893 they killed the government tax-eollector here in a fiendish 
manner, A party of men were drinking with him in the most friendly way 
one evening in the house of Senora Quinones, and the next a.m. these 
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