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the country. These fiends, who are no 

 better than wild beasts, commit the most 

 horrible atrocities, murdering travellers, burn- 

 ing haciendas, and generally devastating the 

 country. Treacherous and cowardly, they are 

 so swift in their movements that it is almost 

 impossible to capture them, and long before 

 the troops who are sent after them are on their 

 track, they are secure in their mountain fast- 

 nesses. Truly it may be said that their hand 

 is against every man, and every man's hand 

 against them. Whenever any of these wretches 

 are by chance caught, they are, in the signifi- 

 cant phraseology of the country, made " good 

 Indians;" it is to be hoped that when the 

 railway now projected to Guaymas is completed 

 this tribe will become a thing of the past. 



After a stay of ten days at Guaymas, we pre- 

 pared to retrace our steps towards the south. 



We had now traversed the west coast of 

 Mexico from one end to the other, and visited 

 every port of any consequence ; everywhere we 

 heard the same old story of revolutions, 



