CHAPTER XXV 



Cabanas 



Monday, June 8th. One of the hills in the range 

 south of Cabanas is ' ' Rubi, ' ' the unique locality of a 

 rare Urocoptid which Dr. Torre especially wished 

 us to obtain. There is also hereabouts a very de- 

 sirable but local variety of the widely distributed 

 arboreal snail, Liguus jasciatus, a small form of 

 vivid yellow coloration. At 6 a.m., Bartsch and 

 I mounted the large ungainly horses awaiting us, 

 and fell in behind our cross-eyed guide. The 

 route took us a mile over the carretera that we 

 had traveled the day before in the diligencia, and 

 then south along an ox-cart road which finally 

 attenuated into a bridle path. This led us for a 

 time through a gently rolling country of cane 

 fields, and then ascended into a belt of higher 

 wooded hills of smooth contour and showing no 

 rock exposure. In about two hours we reached 

 the summit of the first line of foothills flanking the 



high range, not over a mile beyond. As we began 



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