Aug 31 Ate breakfast at the pension, bought bread + bananas + left ($2.45). The houses here are adobe with thatch or shingle roofs. I stopped at one on my way out of town to inquire about some skins hanging outside. A woman was home and said $2.00 for one, they were tanned, and she called the animal "gato del monte" they looked like coati from a distance. I didn't have $2.00 and I think she was asking very high and was slightly embarrassed, and she wouldn't come down, perhaps she wasn't sure how low her husband wanted to sell. When passing indians on the road walking, apparently the greeting consists of "buenos dias" followed immediately afterward by "Adios", both can be abbreviated and one left out, or sometimes a nod does. Another thing, at the table when one leaves one thanks everyone else at the table "muchas gracias". I finally flagged a bus and rode to a likely looking locality in a high pine forest between San Mateo Ixtatan and Santa Eulalia (1/2 kilometer beyond kilometer 197), San Sebastian Coatan turnoff is at # 182) which I believe is the highest altitude that road reaches between those towns. There were lots of salewenders of two ob-