The family of pets had grown; Baldur, Freia, Votan, Doxil--the dogs--were here as at Chila, but he also had fantail and capuchin pigeons, hens and chicks, ducks and geese, canary birds, and native birds in cages.

Here also were archaeological relics, plants, beetles and birds for gathering.

And here too, for the first time, I had the opportunity of examining his great collection of Ecuadorean humming-birds and a magnificent lot of Guatemalan quetzal skins, among them probably the finest ever collected.
[Illustration: THE PADRE'S HOUSE; MEDELLIN] [Illustration: THE CHURCH; MEDELLIN] We left Medellin on January 8th; went by rail to Puebla, then to Oaxaca.
Here we found our friend Doctor Hyde, of Silao, who was nursing Lucius Smith, in what proved to be a final illness.

He aided us in finding animals and completing preparations for our journey.

We secured a large bay horse for myself, a roan for Ernst, a little mule for baggage.