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with fantastic regularity on the mats and usually valued at 1 cent but often a quastilla or medio's worth are put in a pile.

Others sold cigarettes - called Cigarros - & little boxes of wax matches.

The people were very plain-featured, and are mainly of the mixed or mestizo blood.

On Monday I took the diligencia for Itzatlan and passing down the valley through miles of Tequila fields passed the town of Ahualulco and finally swung around the point of some low mountains and entered Itzatlan. As we entered Ahualulco, we passed a long train of mules loaded with mescal plants taking them to the Tequila still. The plants halved & 4 halves on each mule.

Itzatlan - June - 
The diligencia landed us by a stable in a big street & I was told that there was a meson at the plaza - getting this from a bystander, as the driver of the stage said he did not know whether there was a meson or not & his manner indicated that he considered that his having landed us in town was all he could be expected to do. I sallied out & soon found Meson de San Jose fronting the plaza and kept by a young man who