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with others numbering about 25 in all caught the collector and taking 
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San Marcos him outside of town stripped and shot him. Then they cut out his eyes 
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and tied him to a stout pole by one hand and one foot and then, holding 
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the naked body thus aloft, paraded through the town with it and after- 
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wards buried it half within and half without the consecrated ground of 
the burial ground. None of the men taking part in this affair were 
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punished. 
The chief sport of the men here is to get drunk and then parade the 
streets firing guns and pistols sometimes for a large part of the night. 
One of the leaders in this sport is said to be the Presidents. The 
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Senora Quinones is the widow of an old Mexican general and has with her 
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a daughter of 35 or 40 years,-also a widow,with several children. They 
are much more civilized than the people among whom they live and have 
the largest store and their house is the usual stopping place for trav- 
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ellers. 
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For the first 2 or 3 days of ay stay here, the two women and the 
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children sat at the table with us but becoming a little acquainted they 
lost their shyness and I was surprised to see them place their dinner 
on the floor near the foot of the table on a oloth and the entire family 
squatted about eating with their hands from little bowl like earthen 
dishes and a few plates without a knife, fork, or spoon. The old lady 
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divided the meat with her fingers among the others and the meal was 
eaten after live true Indian fashion. This is an example of the un- 
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cultured status of these people yet the old lady had been in San Fran¬ 
cisco and some other parts of California with her husband and came from 
the tablelands of Guanajuato. 
She served our meals the same way, i.e. tore the large pieces of 
fried meat into small fragments with her fingers and also dLsmembered 
chickens the same way. She was a very kind old woman and in doing such 
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