Memoranda: 
Llano Grande 
( Oaxaca) 
Years ago considerable placer gold was found in the bed of a small 
creek just back of the edge of town at Acapulco, Much excitement was 
created along the coast and at San Franoisco, A lot of African miners 
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began to come in and then the governor of the state issued an order pro¬ 
hibiting any further placer mining there and so the matter has remained 
until now, 2he formation is gray granite. It has been suggested that 
this gold was from California and that in the early days it had been 
stolen and hidden in this snail wash and never recovered until the bag 
decayed and the gold was washed down the bed of the wash by 
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(to Hacienda del Capricho are some ancient artificial mounds. 
Living on walls of houses at Acapulco and along the damp coast belt 
is a small semitransparent lizard called Salamanquezca, It was hidden 
during the day but came out and ran about on the walls in Idle evening. 
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They had a loud chirping call note something like ohiuk, ehiuk, chuk. 
This was heard usually at dusk u* about dawn. They eat small insects, 
flies, etc. 
February 16th: We went on about 15 miles to the village of Llano 
Grande where we stopped at the house of one of the principal men. Here 
we remained the 17th and 18th as my horse became Very lane at the 
Hacienda and I hoped to cur© him here. The smith at Cteetepeo had driven 
a nail into his hoof so to lame him. This place is across the line into 
Oaxaca and is on the border of a large dry plain partly open grassy 
country but about half covered with a low growth of trees and bushes 
which are found along drainage courses and slopes or hollows wherever 
the soil best retains moisture. 
The people here are mainly of negro blood and the village is made 
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