sent orders that the man should bring his munecos to the house for us to see.  To this request, he returned the proper reply, that he would not do so; that they would be offended; that they were not toys to be carried about at the nod and beck of everyone.  This greatly increased our interest, and we arranged for a trip to his house.  We first sent a messenger forward, with word that we were coming, and ordered him to stay there to see that Diego did not run away or hide the idols.  After supper, Dona Panchita, our company, Mr. and Mrs. Culin, and one or two others, picked our way by moonlight across the stepping-stones and foot-bridge, up a trail by coffee groves along a purling brook-side.  We were soon at the house, and after some hesitation, Diego led us to the Holy of Holies.  The munecos were kept in a little house, which contained an altar built of boards, with fresh flowers for decoration.  At the back of the altar, against the wall, were prints of Christian saints; on the altar were censers and an open bundle of copal.  Two wooden boxes were at the right end of the altar, against the wall.  These contained munecos which, for some time, Diego hesitated to produce.  Finally he took out an idol of rather fine-grained, brownish-gray stone; the head was large and infantile, with the Mongolian cast of countenance; its badly shaped and scrawny arms were raised so as to bring the hands together on the chest; the body was shapeless.  This figure was clad in a suit of unbleached cotton, much too long and slender for it, and the arms of the camisa, and the legs of the calzones hung limp.  When we had duly admired this figure, a second was produced—­a pottery female-head, fairly shaped, with no body to speak of; this had glass earrings fastened in the ears.  Next, a small headless figure was brought out; it was old, though probably made after the Conquest, and we agreed that it represented a padre.  Next was a simple pottery head.  Last was a figure, with small head and pointed cap, made apparently of pottery; the body had been pieced out to disproportionate length with wood, and ended in a pair of wooden feet; this was dressed in black velvet, and wore a black hat.  These, Diego asserted, were all he had.  After having expressed our delight with them, and our regret that we had not known what we were to see, that we might have brought with us some fine white copal as incense for these gods, we set them up in a straight line on the edge of the altar to make a flashlight picture.  As we left, we gave Diego two reales to spend for the benefit of his gods.  After we left, we were assured that he had finer ones of black stone, which he dresses in red, but we were content with the ones we had seen.  These figures are particularly used on September 16th, San Miguel’s day.  They are also used at sowing-time, at harvest, and at the first cutting of sugar-cane.  On these occasions, incense and candles are burned, the idols are taken in the hands,