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Vinales before the schooner could reach Esperanza, 

 and we laid out a scheme of work upon the neigh- 

 boring sierras which would tax our endurance to 

 the limit. Martinez, with his two mules and gouty 

 cab, was secured for a six o'clock start the follow- 

 ing morning. 



