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narkably little affectation and as being much more accessible to the 
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Jamiltepec 
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common people than most men in his place. He struck me as being pe- 
culiarly fitted for the office in this community where his kind of 
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rule is all that prevents serai-anarchy. 
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On the next morning I took the road again on a horse furnished by 
the Jefe with a ”tupil M on foot to serve as guide and to take back the 
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horse from the Rio Verde, At 2 p.m, we reached this latter place 
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after travelling about 25 miles first through the hills near Jamiltepec 
and then along up the valley of the Rio Verde and its tributary flats 
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which are dry at this season. 
In these bottoms were seen a number of “trees and shrubs for the 
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first time. The growth was low but dense, the scrubby trees being matted 
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by bushes and vines into dense thickets over large areas. 
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Excepting several flycatchers and Collie*s Magpie and troupials. 
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birds were not numerous and no ma&mls were seen except a couple of 
squirrels in the morning, 
A few jacales were passed where Indian and negro mixed bloods were 
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living. My "tupil" did not know the road most of the way and kept try- 
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ing to get out of going farther. Several times he called out, "Senor, 
Sen or,- I oan*t go any farther.'* But did it so goodnaturedly and was 
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so easily persuaded to continue that it was amusing rather than annoy¬ 
ing. Finally we came to the crossing of the RJc Verde where my "fcupil" 
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took the horse I had been riding and I hired another with a man to go 
with me at once to the next village enroute where we arrived about 5 
p.m, and I thus made 40 miles today despite my lame horse. 
Tepanixtla- 
huaca 
At this village of Tepanixtlahuaea the people were holding a coun¬ 
cil over the invasion of their lands by some neighboring villagers. 
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