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With Mr. Armour at the helm we sailed all night, encountering 
numerous adventures both trying and amusing, and at daybreak 
reached the village of Palisada. Taking a cup of chocolate 
in the market place we wove canis on the 8 at sunrise, and 
passing down the Usumacinta and Palisada rivers and through 
the lagoon, we arrived safely on board the Ituna at Carmen, 
at five o'clock in the afternoon. As a storm was raging on 
the Gulf outside, it was decided to remain in port until it sub- 
sided, and during the stay of three days our party was most 
hospitably entertained by the American Vice-Consul, Mr. Her- 
man Hahn. Receiving advices from the officers of the port that 
the storm was over and the passage of the bar possible, the 
Ituna sailed out over a charming sea, to encounter before mid- 
night one of the severest "Northers" on record. It was the 
Southern extension of the storm that gave New Orleans ten inches 
of snow. 
From Vera Cruz the party, consisting of Mr. Armour, 
Mr. Thompson and the writer, set out by way of Puebla to Oaxaca. 
From Oaxaca two of the most noted ruin-groups of 
Mexico were reached. By stage twenty-nine miles to the south- 
east on the Tehuantepec highway we reached Mitla, a marvelous 
city now built over by a modern Indian village, and, with the 
exception of a half-dozen of its greatest temples, practically 
destroyed. Here a week was spent with exceptional profit, and 
a visit was made also to the ancient quarries on the mountain 
Side and to a fortified hill near by. 
