Hunting in Many Lands 



Then we tried to get a decent map, but 

 were foiled. The Mexican explorer will find 

 the maps of that country a source of curious 

 interest. Many of them are large and elabo- 

 rately mounted on cloth, spreading to a great 

 distance when unfolded. The political divi- 

 sions are marked with a tropical profusion of 

 bright colors, which is very fit. A similar 

 sense of fitness and beauty leads the designer 

 to insert mountain ranges, rivers and towns 

 where they best please the eye, and I have 

 had occasion to consult a map which showed 

 purely ideal rivers flowing across a region 

 where nature had put the divide of the high- 

 est range in the State. 



My furniture contained a hundred cartridges, 

 a belt I always carry, given by a friend, with a 

 bear's head on the buckle (a belt which has 

 held, before I got it, more fatal bullets than 

 any other west of the Rockies), and my usual 

 rifle. J. B, prepared himself in a similar way, 

 except the belt. 



Starting south from San Diego, we crossed 

 the line at Tia Juana, and spent an unhappy 

 day waiting on the custom house officials. 

 They, however, did their duty in a courteous 

 manner, and we. with a bundle of stamped 



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