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Apatzingan, Mexico, November 18, 1904.

My dear Mr. Hyde and Heye:-
Shall have to make this a combi-letter as we are laboring under somewhat serious difficulties at the present time. When we reached Uruapan Mrs. Pepper was so weak from stomache trouble that she could retain no solid food. The weather was still bad and we were rather dubious about results as both were sick from the continued cold rainy weather. Mr Cobbs met us at the station and we went to the Hotel. Our train was six hours late and we had been riding from eight in the morning until 12.30 the next morning, the greater part of the time in a coach where everybody smoked. I cannot go into details now so will merely state that we lost no time in Uruapan. The morning of the day that we arrived we transferred our materials from the trunk to boxes and the next morning at six were on the road. Mrs. Pepper had been in the saddle but once before and her stomach was so weak that she could hardly mount but she succeeded in making the 41 miles the first day and the 31 the second day which brought us to camp. That was nhght [[night]] before last. Yesterday I went about the rice fields with Mr. Cobbs and had a view of some of the prehistoric mounds. This morning we started out at 5.20 and waded through the water up to our hips for over five miles. We we siw [[we saw]] more mounds and killed some game for food. Reached camp at 8.30 and I changed my clothes. Mr Cobbs [[strikethrough]] changed his cl [[/strikethrough]] did not change his but went back to the fields. I skinned some parrots and when he returned at noon we all had dinner together. After dinner we went out to catch some