There they built another fire, and, before morning, they had consumed three bottles of spirits.

What with the firelight and smoke, the noisy laughter, the loud talking and constant movement, it was impossible for me to sleep.

Only for a single hour, when they fell back upon the floor in drunken slumber, and their fire burned down, did I get a bit of rest.

If seems that they were an official guard put to watch the town store of grain which was kept in the building, and which was subject to the depredations of animals.
During the following day we completed our work upon Chinantecs.

The type is one of the best marked.