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Huamantla.

returned to the rancho to inquire about me.  The old man told them the tracks they saw were made by me returning the night before.  I stood in one corner of a room inside listening to their conversation & expected every moment they would search the house. After some 10 or 15 min. talk they again rode off but remained in the neighborhood the entire day.  One of the fellows of the rancho who was most active in my behalf came down today with my blankets & traps & said he had seen the Jefe & that 2 of the gang had been arrested.  

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Perote

Perote, Vera Cruz.  May 17.  We left Huamantla this morning about 10:30 for San Marcos & from there took the "Ferro Carril Oceanico" to this place leaving San Marcos at 2:30 & arriving here about 4:30.  The cornfields along the railroad between Huamantla & San Marcos were much greener than when we came up from Esperanza about a week ago.  After leaving San Marcos we entered a different kind of country over the first station Ojo de agua there is a very large spring which forms quite a like with tules growing in it & a few miles this side of it a series of hills

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