During the following day we completed our work upon Chinantecs.  The type is one of the best marked.  In the child, the nose is wide, flat at the tip, with a straight or even concave bridge; the eyes are widely separated and often oblique; the mouth is large, the lips thick and the upper lip projects notably beyond the lower; the face is wide, and flat at the cheek-bones.  With age, this type changes, the nose becomes aquiline, and of moderate breadth, the upper lip becomes less prominent, the skin lightens.

For two days more, days of darkness, rain and cold that penetrated to the marrow, we remained prisoners in the village, waiting for the horses for which we had sent the day of our arrival.  It was impossible to make photographs, nor was it feasible to look around the town, or into the adjoining country.  The secretario, indeed, showed us the way in which spirits are distilled from the sap of sugar-cane, and we had ample opportunity to examine the dress of the people and the mode of weaving.  All the women dress in garments of home-woven cotton, and the red head-cloths, so characteristic a feature of the dress of men and boys, are woven here from thread already dyed, bought in other places.  The little figures of animals or birds or geometrical designs worked in them in green or yellow worsted are woven in, at the time of making the cloths, with bright bits of wool.

At last our animals appeared.  They had been sent from Papalo, and we made arrangements, as we supposed, for using them through to Cuicatlan.  The animals arrived at 9:30 in the morning and the mozo with them reported that the roads were bad from the constant rains of the past several days.  We decided to leave that afternoon, stopping at Zautla for the night, and then, making an early start, to push through in a single day.  The presidente, alcalde, and other town officials accompanied us to the border of the village, where they bade us adieu, begging for a real for drink.  As we left, the sky was clear and the mists were rising from the valleys.  For the first time we gained some idea of the beauty of the country all around us.  The houses of the town are well built, with walls of poles or narrow slabs neatly corded together in a vertical position.  The roofs are thatched with palm; they pitch sharply from a central ridge and the ends pitch also from the ridge in independent slopes.  The top is crested with a comb of thatch, neatly applied.  Off to the right from the village lay a magnificent valley, with massive rock walls clad with green forest.  The low masses of clouds and great banks of mist but emphasized the impression made by those parts of the scene that were visible.  Soon we had passed the ridge and looked down again into the Zautla valley.  The road was not as bad as we had anticipated.  As we made our upward climb, we found that the flame-colored orchids, few when we last passed that way, were out in quantity.  They are a terrestrial species,