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Huamantla.

did not consider it safe for me to try to go down at dark as the road was guarded below. I think I could have dodged them without difficulty however.  Yesterday morning I left the rancho at 5 A.M. to go to my traps up near timber line & off to the rocky hill.  returned to the rancho arriving about 8 A.M. & after washing & eating some tortillas & meat & drinking some pulque I went inside & began packing up my traps as I intended to go down while so engaged someone said my "compañero" was coming as the day was bright I thought it likely Mr Nelson might come up to get some pictures.  I got packed up &

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Huamantla.

was making arrangements to leave when the old man seeing who was coming grabbed me by the arm & told me to get into a back room which I did.  Those who were coming instead of being Mr N. & party was a band of about 12 most of them armed who pretended to want to arrest me & take me down to Huamantla they were merely a band of robbers who wished to take me off in the mt. and do me up.  The old man did all he could to throw them off my track, he told them I had gone up into the Mt. that morning & had not returned accordingly they left but found my fresh tracks coming down & 

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