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In Indian Mexico (1908)

CHAPTER XVI
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To get the sweet liquid, one takes the insect by the head or forward body and pressing the honey bag sucks out the contents.

It is sweet and rich, with a little twang, as if fermented, and people in the district call it honey-wine.

Three quarters of an hour brought us to San Francisco, though we had to go down and up two large _barrancas_ before we reached the town.

It was almost sunset when we arrived.

Sitting down before the town-house, we sent for the _agente_.


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