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put in as many pictures as they liked. I chanced to be in the house when we had got our meals and an indian came in for his pictures that he had been having rudely framed by our host. When he paid the latter our host asked him if he expected to have the pictures [[strikethrough]] fram [[/strikethrough]] blessed & when he said yes our friend said, "well, leave them with me & I will put them with my pictures when the priest blesses them & so yours will become blessed at the same time without costing you anything. This was agreed to & the pictures were thus sanctified at a cheap rate. The people of San Juan are almost wholly pure blooded Mijas there being but few mixed bloods there & the only foreigners are a Frenchman & an American, the latter a pinto, named Bailey. I asked the town clerk what language the people spoke here (he being a native who had been born here & spoke both Spanish & it - He looked at me vacantly for a minute & then said “To tell you the truth sir, that is something I have not fixed my mind on so I do not know.” Many cattle, horses & mules belong to these people besides their wealth in land. The town is divided into two sects as regards religion. One set are nominally Catholics & the others practice in a more or less hidden way their ancient idolatrous rites. The people who informed me of the latter said it made the priest very angry to know of these doings & that one time he heard of a gathering