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Huamantla

for me to come down from the woods & are also watching the rancho so that I cannot make my escape but will try to as so this might if I am not found before. If they find me they may or may not kill me The people at the rancho here are doing all they can to prevent my being found. My hole is behind the rancho from the road under some bushes. I write at 10 min to 2.P.M.

Huamantla. May 15. Remained in my hole on the mt at rancho until 

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Huamantla.

about 4P.M. when it began to rain & a part of the gang went down part way to Huamantla The others remained until nearly dark when they too went down [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] one of them remaining at the rancho just below. I climbed out of my hole & took shelter in one of the huts & at dark went across the road to another ranch where I stayed until 2 o'clock in the morning when I awakened an indian who was to guide me across a lot of barrancas & down to near Huamantla by another road. I did not sleep any & was ready to leave the rancho where I stayed at the first alarm. The people at the rancho where I was hidden in the hole