We called at their house, quite like the others of the town, and were hospitably received with chocolate and sweet English cakes.

During our stay, this gentleman and his wife did their utmost for our comfort, and gave us many interesting bits of information regarding the people, their customs and their superstitions.

We have elsewhere described in detail their witchcraft practices, their belief in transformation into tigers, and their ideas regarding the destiny and condition of persons after death.
[Illustration] [MAZATEC FROM SAN LUCAS] [Illustration] [MAZATEC FROM SAN LUCAS] Just across the way from the town-house, was a large house of the usual fashion, which we quickly learned was the rendezvous and practice-place of the town band.

This consisted entirely of boys, none of them more than twenty years of age, and numbered upwards of thirty pieces.

The leader was a man of forty, a capital trainer.