154 A YEAR OF COSTA RICAN NATURAL HISTORY 



nize the man, for we had only stopped to ask the way on our 

 previous visit and I had not noticed the farmer particularly. 

 It was evident, however, that he had noticed me. I saw him 

 studying me long and carefully, then looking at Mr. M. 

 Finally he said to me, "You were here two months ago, 

 no.?" "Yes." "Yes, you are the same, but the man is dif- 

 ferent!" We all laughed when I translated that and Mrs. 

 M. exclaimed, "That is my man!" Of course the farmer 

 did not understand the words but her gestures were unmis- 

 takable and he said at once, "O, su esposo" with an air of 

 enlightenment. Then he looked at me again in a way that 

 plainly said, "But what the dickens are you doing here.?" 



A longer and much prettier route than the straight road 

 to Agua Caliente ran through the neat and attractive little 

 village of Dulce Nombre, south and east of Cartago. It was 

 quite closely built along the line of the road, with the begin- 

 nings of a brick church which promised to be very fine if it 

 ever reached completion. Dulce Nombre was on the little 

 Rio Toyogares, and the banks of this stream bore quite the 

 largest thicket of Datura arborea that we saw anywhere. 

 From Dulce Nombre one road led west to Agua Caliente. 

 Another ran east and south through the region known as 

 "Las Concavas" and past the hacienda of the same name, 

 descended by zigzags to the level of the Agua Caliente River 

 crossed this river on a suspension bridge and at "La Flor" 

 joined the road from the Jocosal and ran on past "Navarro" 

 to Orosi and Cachi. 



The usual route to the village of Orosi, lying in the valley 

 of the Agua Caliente east of its junction with the Navarro, 

 was to follow the Carretera east through the barren red 

 gravel of the Paraiso country almost to that town, where a 

 road branched south into the valley. There was a small 

 laguna by the side of the latter road which looked promising, 

 but we never found many species of dragonflies in or near it. 



