was pointed out.  Addressing him, I said, “And so you do not wish to be measured?” “No sir,” said he, “I will not be measured.”  “Very good,” said I.  “What is your name?” He told us.  I marked it down upon my blank, and wrote out the description of his person.  Then, seizing my measuring rod, I said to him quite sharply, “Well, well!  Take off your hat and sandals.  We must lose no time!” And before he really realized what we were doing, I had taken his measurements.  Having finished with him, I turned again to the presidente.  “And what other member of the committee particularly objects to being measured?” As I spoke, another man was indicated.  Turning to him, I said, “Let us lose no time.  Take off your hat and sandals while I measure you.”  In an instant the thing was done.  The operation was carried through.  Before I had finished with the second case, the others began to smile and snicker, and when I was ready for my third subject I simply asked, “Who next?” and they came one after another without complaint.  Having measured all the members of the committee, I soberly addressed them.  “Now, if there is any harm in this that I have done, you are all as badly off as can be.  If I were you, I would try to get as many other people in the same position as I could; go out and bring in others.”  Before noon the work was done, and we were ready to go on to Juquila.

We rested, however, the balance of the day, and spent a second night at Ayutla.  The day had been given to drinking, throughout the town.  It will be remembered that the village proper lies on a terrace, upon a slope above the town-house.  As we sat before the house, in the afternoon and evening, we heard from time to time yells and cries above.  Some policemen, who were standing up there to keep order, would then appear upon the edge of the slope, and, waving their hands, would loudly cry for help; then the policemen from the town-house would run to their assistance, and in a little time the party would return, dragging one or more victims to the jail.  This operation continued from early in the afternoon until late at night; fully fifteen or twenty persons were brought down from the village to the jail during that time.

We had hoped to find the valley of clouds, and the great cloud cataract, on the road to Juquila, but were doomed to disappointment.  When we stood upon the summit, looking down into what before had been the sea of mist, the whole place was clear, and everything, to the very bottom of the valley, was visible.  The further journey seemed more tedious than before, and the latter part of the road seemed truly endless.  There was not a breath of air; the sun poured its hot rays down mercilessly.  Long before we reached Juquila I felt, for the first time in Mexico, that I was suffering from fever.  After seven and a half hours on the road, we reached the town at 1:30 in the afternoon, and went at once to the town-house, where we were well received, and