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32 El Chico.
superciliary stripe over eyes. 

We stopped in this place in afternoon in the second story of a house. All of the houses are of very queer shapes. They are of adobe with roofs made of narrow shakes held on by cleats nailed cross wise on each layer of them.  The roofs are very steep and usually slope on all four sides. The eaves are very wide probably on account of the abundance of rain in summer. The streets are very narrow and very crooked. Several reduction

El Chico. 33
works are located here water affords power. The water is brought through a flume from a canon near town. There are mines in the neighborhood (silver). 


El Chico, Mar 22. Wed. 
I set out some mouse & rat traps last night they yielded 9 mice of the kind found everyhere [[everywhere]] in the oak woods. They appear to be very plentiful here. There are plenty of acorns which form their food. They however took wheat bait and I caught