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developing outfit, which, although heavy and bulky, 

 gave results amply rejDaying all trouble. A trunk made 

 a good developing-table ; after the sun sank, the whole 

 canyon became a dark-room ; while our washing-tray 

 was a cavity between two water-worn boulders, through 

 which rushed the cold stream straight from the melting 

 snows on the volcano. 



To the camping woman should always be given this 

 warning : See to it that the party is provided with a 

 cook, that nothing may be expected of her in the way 

 of cooking and dish-washing. Let her supervise the 

 cooking — the menu will be vastly improved ; and if she 

 is gracious to the cook she may succeed in banishing 

 the national garlic and chUl. But have it distinctly 

 understood that she is camping iov jjleasure, and that 

 she does not expect to come home at night, tired after 

 a long day's ride or tramp, with the prospect before her 

 of wrestling with a smoky camp-fire and of washing 

 dishes by the flickering light of a candle. 



I hope every party may be as fortunate in its cook 

 as w^e were in ours. He was cook, dish-washer, guide, 

 and when occasion demanded more fluent Spanish than 

 was at our command, he was interpreter. The pleasure 

 of a trip to Mexico will be many times increased by 

 a knowledge of the Spanish language, even as slight 

 as that gained from Cortina's admirable little book 

 " Spanish in Twenty Lessons ; " indeed if you leave 

 the beaten lines of travel and camp in the country, 



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