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Mexico City Tuesday Sep 11-906.
Set up at 6 to make a start for the
official excursion to the pyramids at San
Juan Teotihuacan. We left at 8 A.M.
in 6 or 7 cars. As we go out we get a fine
view of Cerro Chape. In an hour we arrive
at the station and as the pyramids are 3 lit.
distance several beautiful cavalry horses are
there and many wagons in the lades. Conclude
to walk and join Tritzge and Tockernyechor.
We arrive at the Pyramids before the party
arrives due to our going direct across the fields.
The great pyramid of the sun is now being
renovated and modernized and the temple base
Monite has been cleaned out. There are rumors
that this work is being badly done but how true
this is we cannot say.
Upon arrival tables are found set ready for
breakfast. Then an inspection of the pyramids and
finally Baasome, Hemond, Wady and I walk over to
the small or mound of the Moon and climb to
its top.
It is astonishing what an amount of labor has been
done here by these ancient peoples. The just now