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THE OSPREY. 



other 1800. A few miles up the river we saw in the 

 distance ruins of an extensive series of buildings 

 once forming a part of the mission, now given over 

 to silence and the basking lizard. 



The buildings at El Kosanoare, I believe, without 

 exception, of adobe one-story atlairswith thick walls 

 and roofs of poles thatched with straw or palm leaves 

 and with floors of stone or hard trodden dirt. All 

 about the houses was dirt and sand — no lawns, 



walks, or roadways. In the yard, inclosed by adobe 

 walls and thorny poles of thefouquiera, were stretch- 

 ed lines, on which were drying long strips of meat. 

 On the Hat below ran the irrigating ditches, where 

 women were washing clothes, and which were bor- 

 dered with fine large tig trees full of ripe, purple 

 fruit, and beyond which were peach orchards and 

 gardens. 



Shortly after noon of the -1st our outfit was ready, 



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