They objected to our photographing their houses or themselves.

They drove the messenger whom I had sent to measure a house, for the purpose of making a miniature reproduction, off the premises with clubs.

The _mozos_, who had accompanied us thus far, had no intention of going farther, and the problem of getting carriers--which had troubled us ever since we had left Mitla--assumed serious proportions.

It was with great difficulty and much bluster that we secured the food we needed and the _mozos_.
When the _mozos_ came, three out of the four whom it was necessary for us to employ, were mere boys, the heartiest and best of whom was scarcely ten years old.

In vain we declared that it was impossible for such little fellows to carry the burdens that needed transportation.