a scant three miles distant, was 

 gay with life when the last cen- 

 tury came in; but it is easy to 

 understand how the caballeros, 

 riding at top speed, as they us- 

 ually did on their occasional 

 jaunts through the woods, did 

 not glimpse the butterfly trees. 

 Many a person on foot, and 

 searching particularly for them, 

 has missed them too. Also, 

 many a person has missed them 

 without ever dreaming of that 

 which he unwittingly was pass- 

 ing by. For it is a curious fact 

 that this wonder is, and has al- 

 ways been, comparatively little 

 known. The early voyagers 

 and scientists, thoroughly as 

 many of them explored this re- 

 gion, and keen though their 



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