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At the village of Piaxtla, Puebla - we obtained meals in a house of an old woman whose main treasure was a picure of Christ on the cross with Mary kneeling at its base, dressed in a voluminous bright yellow dress with large puffed sleeves of same color, a red overskirt, & brilliantly blue waist. The dress had a very large bustle and her hair was elaborately dressed all in the style of some 25 years since.
12 leagues below Acaltan Puebla begin pintos.

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These lines give form of a few of the stone courses seen near Rincon on road from Chilpancingo & Acapulco guerrezo - The trail leads among them. Each one of these half ovals is from 10 to 15 ft. long & is made of smoothly worked & squared stone blocks 2 to 3 ft. long; 16-18 in high and a ft. thick. The inside is left rough & the outside cut with a curve. These are laid on flat ground in single course & the figures are scattered irregularly about a falorn forlorne aggregate. A slightly more than usual amount of activity is evident here as a considerable amount of coffee passes here en route to Puerto Angel for shipment & the goods for the Hd's are sold here. 
⁋ We found everything very dear at this place, corn fodder selling at|about a cent a pound. Corn is being imported from Colima as the dry summer last yr. caused a crop failure here. 
No⁋ Everyone here is interested or wishes to become so in coffee planting. Several germans are here & in the coffee planting business & also have the two best stores in town. 
⁋Having laid in a stock of provisions we left part of our baggage here & went down to the coast to Puerto Angel where we located for some days in