It was hard enough to get our male subjects; the women were yet more difficult.

At first we failed to secure any, but after we had several times told the town officials that twenty-five women must be forthcoming for measurement, and Don Guillermo had stormed and threatened, the town-government began to plan a mode of carrying out our wishes.

Close by Don Guillermo's house was the miserable little village _plaza_, where the women of the town assembled with corn-cakes and other articles for trade.

There, they met the travelling peddlers coming from Tlaxiaco, from Cuquila and the coast, and drove their bargains, mostly a matter of trade, not purchase, with them.

Waiting at the place where we were working, until one or two women were to be seen in the _plaza_, the town officials separated, going in two directions.