Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-12-22

cans hereabouts believe that there are rich gold mines in the Yaqui country, though the Yaquis bring no gold to Guadalajara. There is a tradition, too, that the long lost city of the Aztec race, old enemies of the Yaquis, lies hidden among the inacceSsi- ble mountains of the Yaqui country.
 The Yaquis at home go about nearly naked, but on approaching Guadala jara they comply with the new law of Mexico requiring the male peasants on appearing in any city or town of the republic to wear trousers. The Yaquis, however, take of their trousers as soon as they are clear of the town and journey homeward clad only in a breech clout.
 The scientific world has taken enough in- terest in the Yaquis to send several expe- ditions into their mountains in search of antiquities, but every such expedition has returned baffled from the undert aking.
 A business man from the United States recently made q notable attempt to explore the Saqui country as an incident of jour ney on horseback to Topic. The projected railway to Topic, by the way, will one day hasten the solution of the Yaqui mystery. The traveller fell in with and joined two others shortly after leaving Guadalajara. One was . native of the United States the other a Hawaiian of white percentage. They had long been mining in Mexico, and the talk naturally fell upon the stories of gold in the Haqui country. The miners believe in the tradition, and at length persuaded the newcomer to join them in three days journey of exploration into the mountains
 The travellers approached the Yaqui country, about 50 miles out from Guada- lajara, and there left the trail to Topic in or der to take the well worn fuotpath used by the Naquis in going 10 and from Guadala- jara. As soon as the travellers sighted the first Yaqui village, they saw the inhabitants men, women and children - hastening from their homes into the bush. They car ried heir petates, or sleeping mats of woven grass. and seemed to have other property of some sort concealed in these fabrics. Ev- cry Yaqui in sight was nearly naked. 4 few looked back, but not one paused to an sweg the cry of the travellers, and none of fered the slightest resistance to the invad- CTS of their homes. The Yaquis, in fact, followed their ancient policy of flying civ ilized men as though they were bearers of pestilence.
 The village proved to be made up of about 20 matched adobe huts. Each had a single entrance and no window. Within was single room, dark and bare There was no furniture save tho carthen arazier common to peasant homes in nearly all parts of Mexico and few pieces of rude earthen pottery wrought by the Yaquis themselves. The Yaquis keep no domestic animals, so no dog parked at the intruders. The only evidences of agriculture were a few patches of beans and corn. Every ves- tige of food had been carried away in the exodus of the Eaquis
 The experience of the travellers in this village was exactly repeated in four or five others. From one or two the inhabitants had utterly vanished before the strangers appeared; from the others all fled at the ap- proach of the intruders. Food, arms and aught else that might aid explorers in pen