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The main landing place is at the Hda. Ibarra.  This place is now a small body of land bordering the lake near the town of Patzcuaro which is about 1 1/2 miles back from the shore.  It is said that some 25 or 30 years since an earthquake here caused a large part of the Hda. land to sink.  The lake is without outlet & surrounded by volcanic hills & many old craters to be found in the neighborhood.

The Hda. Ibarra is owned by a old man who with his family are fanatically religious.  A chapel occupies a corner room of their building (which is a hotel) & morning & evening prayers are said there by all the household.  I could not help connecting the miserable flea-infested quarters & niggardly table (one of the worst I have seen in Mex. for the money) with this excess of religious form.  In [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] a missionary of the Episcopal Church I also found in Mex. that an excess of form did not go with practice, as he managed to get the best of me a few dollars by a willful misstatement which I discovered in less [[stikethrough]] half [[/strikethrough]] than an hour later.  He was not a fair sample of missionaries that I met however in Mexico.