assaults from evil-doers. And they have freed the city from the plague of 6048 dogs! Just as many dogs arrested as human beings. These statistics furnish an inadequate idea of the number of knife-fights that are of so common occurrence among the peons about the pulque-shops, in which women and men show an equal skill at stabbing in the back.
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For a more authentic account, see Appendix E.
55 (Return) Having lost my memorandum, I am uncertain whether the number of days was one or more, and whether the number of francs named was six or eight. The following