Near Ohuivo, in the mountains toward Morelos, there used to live a family of ten albinos.  When I was there only two survived, smallpox having made havoc among them.  Their skin was so delicate that even the contact with their clothing irritated it.  Mr. Hartman visited one of them, an old woman who lived in a cave with her husband, a small, dark-skinned fellow, and the two certainly were “mated, but not matched.”  Her features were entirely Indian, but her complexion was unique in Mexico, even among the white population.  She reminded one of a very blond type of Scandinavian or Irish peasantry.  Her hair was yellowish-white, but her eye-brows and -lashes were snow-white.  The face and body were white, but disfigured with large red spots and small freckles.  She kept her eyes more than half shut, and as she was very shy it was not possible to ascertain the color of the iris; but Mr. Hartman was assured by the husband that it was bluish.

Most of the Indians in Ohuivo live in houses.  The few caves that are occupied are not improved in any way.  One cave contained ancient habitations, and tradition says that there the Tubares had once established themselves.  The cave is nothing but a nearly horizontal crack in the rock, situated on the southern side of the river, some 300 feet above the bottom of the valley.  It runs from south-east to north-west to a length of about 200 feet, interrupted perpendicularly by a crevice.  Entering the cave at the southernmost end I found twelve low-walled rooms, standing singly, but closely side by side.  They were square with rounded corners.  The walls were built of stone and mud and one foot thick, and the floors were hard and smooth.  A store-room, in a good state of preservation, resembled in every detail the store-houses used by the Tarahumares of the present day, being square and built of stone and mud.  In none of these rooms was it possible for me to stand upright.  Apart from this group, a few yards higher up in the cave, were two small houses.  The floor of the cave was getting higher and higher.  I had to crawl on my stomach for about ten yards and came suddenly to the edge of a precipice; but a track led around it to the other side, where I found the main portion of the houses, eighteen in all, the largest having a side thirteen feet long, though the others were considerably smaller.  They were arranged just like those of the first section, in one row, and were made of the same material, except a few, which were built of adobe.  In these the walls were only eight inches thick.  One of the rooms was still complete, had square openings, and may have been a store-room.  The others seem to have had the conventional Indian apertures.  In two chambers I noticed circular spaces sunk into the floor six inches deep and about fourteen inches in diameter.  What I took to be an estufa, nineteen feet in diameter, was found in the lowest section.  Behind it was only a small cluster of five houses higher up in the cave.