90 0O?mnffil;TrOKSTD' WESTERN BOTANY NO. 1> 



20 feefvrfde and with half a dozen paths cut down several feet into the 

 «oil by thfe-feet of saddle and pack animals. There are no such trails in 

 the United States, not even in the mountains where there never were any 

 wagon roads. Tt takes a strong imagination to realize that for hundreds 

 of years, wKrle our own country was in the making, the Mexican mosoi 

 wre trudging along over these age-old paths, even before the Pilgrima 

 landed on Hymouth Rock Here they have eked out their scanty living 

 and lived their tragedies, and got nowhere under Catholic rule, while the 

 Vrotestants at the north have carved out a nation second to none. We 

 f.m hardly blame the Villas and Maderos who have seen the contrast and 

 SU'en their lives to redeem their people. 



After three days at this quaint ol(J town of Ixtlan I again took the train 

 for tho end of the road, some 30 milesfarther, at La Barranca, which hw 

 H t!)e foot of the Sierras. This was just an old ranch and a temporary 

 construction camp. After some hunting I got a buggy canvas cot in 'a 

 ..nj.^h shed for a peso a day, and had to hunt mv meals where I could. 



suppose means a box 



I 



on.stnictrd. 



cross 



down 



perpendicular, 

 md crass, and 



specimens on the way. Then when down 

 out 



., , ■"-"■ -&"•*"» "iiM ""> WAS liu picnic, DUi 1 got wwi 



.ome miles farther up and along a draw that had a ranch or two along it, 



growing. But it took me all dav to reach the hot 



town. I made 



jT^cmen.. here of any Then the next day I lugged my baggage back to 



Acaponeta, which is about 

 rhTo-r' ^"^.,^^^^,^« Tepic and Matzlan, and only a few miles from 

 .w tn 1; r^"" \^^'' '^'^^'"S ^ P^^^ ^°^^« «^ ^^^^^ to get my ba- 

 fnd xLvJTl *' "-'^'l '""^^ ^"' ^"^ ^ ^^«^d °f passengers got off 



' ar>anT.\^1 . ."■? °^^"'*^°^ °^ ^^^"* ^^^^ °^ the trail Xo cross the 

 .ananca and get to the other end of the road coming out from Guadala- 



rowd "H.nrr K ' """"^^ ^ ^^""^ ^'^''^^ VL^^xz^r. shouted from the 

 he was a civ^i ?^?*-r-. '^^^ ^ ^°°^ ^"°ther look and saw that 

 So w^ w.v?r' T '^ °^'!.'^ ^^'^ ^ ^^^ "^^t at La Paz the year before. 



I had f« .1' n^ .^^ci,smiled at each otheras we passed. ^ 

 made uo for fS • ""'t^ ^\^^^'^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^«-^t morning the train wa. 

 otiihe costal l\ZZ ""T^' ^' ""^l "" ^^^^^Mful down thf river and out 

 whole re^ton t f ^'^^"^'^^i ^^ich we reached in the evening. This 

 uLthe^r^^^^^ ^i* '^^"^Jits. and doubtless this 



^nd of%rr r ' ' 11^:^' ^' -S^^- ^-^ - had no escort of soldier. 



bandit 



happened that a good 



the station, on the citv side Lh T V ^^^T ^^^ ^ «*^ ^°*^^ '''^! *' 

 I was soon in Tl^ ' ? ^ ^^^ "'^t the proprietor before, and so 



rl mT was a ^^IflT '°^ "^l ^^^^^^^ around me. Across the way 

 'TitTa ci^ anT f ^ ^? ^'"^ * "'"P^^y of ^<>Wiers. Acaponeta 

 r. At ?)!;' wf, l^ll^'^"* / '-'J^ fro^ the depot to the cen^r of 



V * met an Aemrican engineer who wa.« 



town 



American 



