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 Indian Dresses — Saints — Music — Union of tropical and European vegetation — Old Customs — Falls of the Sararaqui — Silkworms — Indian painting — Beautiful heroine — Leave Uruapa — Tziracuaratiro — Talkative Indian — Alcalde's house — Pascuaro — Old church — Mosaic work — The lake — The cave — Fried fish — Rich Indians — Convent — Cuincho — Darkness — Morelia — Alameda — Cathedral — Silver — Waxworks — College — Wonderful fleas.

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dress of the Indian women of Uruapa is pretty, and they are altogether a much cleaner and betterlooking race than we have yet seen. They wear "naguas," a petticoat of black cotton with a narrow white and blue stripe, made very full, and rather long; over this, a sort of short chemise made of coarse, white cotton, and embroidered in different colored silks. It is called the sutunacua — over all is a black reboso, striped with white and blue, with a handsome, silk fringe of the same colors. When they are married, they add a white embroidered veil, and a remarkably pretty colored mantle the huepilli, which they seem to pronounce guipil. The hair is divided, and falls down behind in two long plaits, fastened at the top by a bow of ribbon and a flower. In this dress there is no alteration from what they wore in former days; saving that the women of a