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28 Pachuca

the train & their friends came to see them off. It was quite an affecting scene. They could only go as far away as Pachuca yet some of them shed tears where they embraced in the spanish fashion at parting.

I shot a San Augustin Icterus wagleri, 2 Pipiles (Mt species) 1 Callipepla squamata, 1 Poeaitesgram, 2 Ptiliogonys cinereus

Pachuca Mar 19.
Goaded shells all forenoon in the afternoon went to 

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Pachuca.
a bull fight. Two bulls were billed & one horse
Two other bulls were brought in but as the "matadors" made repeated efforts & did not kill them they were taken out.
This was the first fight I have seen & I do not wish to see another. The horse killed was disemboweled by the bull & as he lay on the ground still alive at intervals the bull would make a rush at him & knock him around. The poor brute