TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES. 233 



During a late trip to the Medina 

 river in 'July 1911, we came across 

 some of the highest rocky embank- 

 ments we had seen yet in that wild 

 romantic country, aud some of the 

 photographs herein give a clear idea 

 how they look; one esdeci ally show- 



forests and surrounding mountains, 

 and it is here (photo page 230) I am 

 told, in the neighborhood of Pipe's 

 Creek, entering the Medina River, 

 that last year three ladies drowned 

 accidentally, not being aware of 

 the deep and dangerous places 



San Antonio Outing Party Alono the Rmiantic Medina River, "FourteenMilbs 

 Southwest of San. Antonio J 



ing the huge rockwalls 'about thirty 

 or more feet above the Medina river 

 with large crevices and two of 

 the touring party are seen sitting 

 on top of the high cliffs overlooking 

 the romantic Indian river valley, 



they waded in to^bathe," and met 

 their death. In olden days these 

 romantic regions were the haunts 

 of an extinct race — the Indians, 

 and hardly a more ideal place, 

 with lots of wild game and fish 



