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cleared & we continued our journey at 1 P.M.  Showers however were encountered during the afternoon.  The cactus like [[underlined]] Euphorbia [[/underlined]] is used for hedges everywhere.  Another common hedge plant is the gray Mexican pulque plant or century plant.  On the hillsides maize fields were seen but the valley are everywhere devoted to rice  tho' winter crops of broad beans or wheat were seen.  The rock formation is everywhere gray limestone & the hillsides bright red clay soil which is very slippery or greasy when wet.  I saw one limestone cave which connected with one of the sink holes or basins seen here in the hills.  We camped at 5 P.M. at the village of Moo-moo in an old temple on the sidehill above the rice fields