Field Notebook: Mexico 1906
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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