Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-04-28
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 We'll, We crossed the southern bavis.
 ma one early morning. merry com pe- | ny on horsebsek-snd came down into
 The vast coffee-groyes andssu26r estates below thS town. All day We rode through
 cultivated fields of pine-spp,es, bananas, sweet potatoes. corr, interspeIsed with
 orcharts of plantsins and guGvas Noth- inR more beautiful can be imagined
 than garden of plstinors, Gs the difTs- rent varieties of bananas and plantAins
 are here called, their enormous leaves,
 like silken banners of pale green, droop-
 Ing from smooth stems, srehlng fsr above your head and trailing on t.e ground.
 To be sure the great branch. of zr.den
 fruit are ssid 10 be the fagorile breed
 lns place of scorpions, who have al uu-
 comfortable habit Of dropping down
 upon your head ID s wGd at unexpected
 moments and we are told that Jbe smsll,
 broEnish species which abound in this section are far more dangerous than tLe
 biR black ones of Durango, but one cares hite for these minor evils after short residence 10 the tropics.
 tn a banana grove our nOon-day luu- cheon WAS psrtsken sl fresco, shed out oy fresh fruit growing over head guavas, oranges and pine apples "borrowed" from nearby fields. Lster We crossed another deep bsrrancR and cane 70 an Indian village hidden among crffeetrees where lii.le rivers eurgled through the streets gld every hut vas empowered m flowers.
 In this region one frequently meets what at first sight looks like the phe- nomenOn of tree trunks eiecting water which showers around in small streams. Closer inspection, however reveals the the fact that the tree Is covered with
 THE cBICHERA. OR HARVEST FLY, cicade spumaris, which is forever squirting Tn all directions. making noise Ike the distant whistle locomotive. They are found only in the tropics. be- l lieve, and abound chiefly in Central and | South America.
 Away of In this direction. reached | lanes bordered by flowery trees, ls famous chapel called Chapultepee. We made long detOur tO visit it and | on climbing the tower for view found | a stone bearing the date of it's erection, 'Aho l737' old, perhaps for .he United States. but ID Mexico too rt cent to be in- teresting.
 The first night vas passed ln Actpa- Dingo-the pret,lest Indian village ever saw, its cane cottages covered with llacs and white creeper4, every lane of he town shadowed by blossoming trees md bOrdered by running water. There Ire no inns or even mesCns in this out '!-the-wsy section but so grea; is the hospitality of the people that the strsng- .r is sure ot cordial welcome and best he casa affords, at whatever house he chooses Co stop.
 Here She expedition came near being brought to EG untlmely clCse. by the ss- 'ertions oiour host-barked up 3y seve- hl neighbOTs whom he brought ID to verify his statements - that We had undertaken an impOssibility. a. least by hat route, because the barrancas ahead shich We mus. cross to reach the cav IT'D, were totally impossible for ladies. They assured us that so steep were the paths aud passes, men uud lorses hsd been known 10 fall backwards D the sscent, or plunge forevsrd, heels 'ver head ID the perpendicular descent | ,ince It IS well known that Mexican la- lies are the best riders ID the world even by their English cou- ms III equestrian achievements, we seTe plunged into the depths of despair specially after our rosy-cbeeked
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