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train, and could have massacred the whole train load of soldiers and 

 civilians, but by a ruse he got in touch with Gua>Tnas and let them know 

 that he was surrounded there by Yaquis. This led to the immediate dis- 

 patch of a train load of soldiers who got there just in time to save the 

 General. The Yaquis, finding themselves outnumbered, decamped, and 

 the soldiers in revenge burnt all their dwellings. Near by is a long range 

 of mountains which has always been the rallying point of the Yaquis;, 

 and to this they retired. The Government bombed it with airplanes but 

 never dared to send troops into it. The soldiers were deathly afraid of 

 the unerring aim of the Yaqui marksmen, and of the deadly hatred for 

 them. When there were too manv soldiers for the Yaquis to exist on the 



minm 



and sent supplies to their families in the brush. Many of them crossed 

 the border and got work in the American mining camps, but there were 

 alway.s enough to keep the soldiers in hot water. Finally the Government, 

 finding that they could not drive them out nor kill them, renewed the old 

 pension system of paying every Yaqui so much money per month so that 

 he would 'not fight them. And this seems to be the arrangement today. 



We rrached the suburb of Guaymas, Empalme, at night, and remained 

 there all night, till 8 a. m. the next day, when we pulled out with our 

 usual quota of soldiers. We passed through Hermosillo and then Oritz, 

 wliere we drqpped our military guard, and rambled along to Nogales b\ 

 midnight. Nogales consists of two cities, one on each side of the hne. 

 Nogales, Arizona, is an up-to-date American city, with clean streets, an<t 

 m.vlfrn improvements, and sober and intelligent people. It goes up to ?« 



«r;r« f^r.r« cr^mA if^n fppt hiph. which forms the Boundary. On 



certain 



custom 



On the 



home. 



Then 



Am 'rican side I saw no confidence men nor graftens. On the other side 

 w^re plenty of men waiting to skin a stranger or get a graft for pretend- 

 ing to help him to get his baggage acrossthe line. What these men do 

 lu/t know about customs would fill a cart load. My baggage^ was duly 

 in.si>ected and passed. I then got a man with a cart to haul it over the 

 line to the American custom house. There, after asking my_ ^^^f'^^''^ "^/V 

 passed my baggage without inspection, and I soon had it checked tor 



...... came a strenous summer of study and work getting my .-ets 



ready to distribute, but I could not get done In time to go down in the 

 fall as I wanted to do. It was again winter when I was ready and found 

 mv-elf at Nogales in 1927. There was nothing in bloom at ^Nogales. ine 

 tniin schedule was the same as before, every other day a tram going soutti, 

 uhich was a regular passenger train as far as Guaymas. Thence soutn- 



ward was a mixed train. , , ^ i. * * *k.. 



I spent a day at Guaymas in an excursion by mo^or boat to the 

 mouth of the bay, and botanizing on various islands. _ Ihe next day i 

 botanized on the mountain to the north. Then the third day found me 

 on the train bound south. We took on the ^me quota of soW.ers as 

 before at Empalme, and passed through the whole Yaqui region as before, 

 and the second ni^ht we reached San Bias, Sinaloa. .This is one of the 



