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seemed to have difficulty in keeping down & did so only by constant effort as their heads kept rising toward the surface so that the course of the fish was a series of curves thus ~~~~~~~. The fish of this kind seen by me have all been from minnows up to 6 or 8 in. long but I am told they reach 10 to 12 in.  When a school of them is broken up & scattered widely over the river they again unite with surprising quickness.  The single ones swing about here & there until they catch sight of their companions.  When not too badly alarmed the school does not break up but they go jumping away together.  When undisturbed they swim slowly about usually with head upstream & keeping very close together- 1 to 2 or 3 in apart.
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In the evening of April 21st we reached Tehuantepec City. This is an ordinary warm country town of several thousand people, nearly all Zapoteco Indians  The middle of the town is occupied by adobe houses mainly with tile or cement roofs.  The borders of the city being occupied by the palm thatched jacales of the poorer people.  On the border of the town toward the sea is the suburb or Barrio of San Blas which enjoys its separate municipal gov't although it is impossible to say where Tehuantepec leaves off & it begins.  Across the river