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This pedregal leads back toward the low coast country & was the resort of numerous banditti a few years since but the present gov't has pretty thoroughly disposed of them so that at present the Jefe Politico informed me that if two or three persons were together well armed there was no danger. 

We hunted there without any sign of danger.  It is a maze of paths which require careful watching to avoid being lost.  Over beyond to the west lie the famous coffee plantations of Uruapan.  An American has a saw mill at the shore of lake by Patzcuaro & the logs are rafted across the lake from the far shore, making a picturesque addition to the view. 

Heavy rains have made the country brilliantly green here & hosts of wildflowers cover the ground in many places.  But finally the rains proved too much & I was forced to give up trying to complete the work on the high mts. at present & so we took train & ran down to Acambaro & thence to San Luis Potosi.  The rains grew less frequent as we left Michoacan & the country more & more dry until