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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Dane Coolidge 



'PUTTING ON DEER HORNS 



A favorite gesture of the Yaquis, the tribe that long has constituted the most lawless 

 element of Sonora and has figured in many of the forays at the border town of Nogales. 

 Even under the Diaz regime the Yaquis refused to recognize the Mexican Government. This 

 attitude led to the assignment of troops to exterminate them, but since these troops received 

 extra pay they were provident of a good job, and no great inroads were made upon the rebels. 



through to Guadalajara, and thus connect 

 San Francisco and Mexico City by a di- 

 rect route. And, if an original plan is 

 carried out, the line will be extended to 

 Salina Cruz, the West Coast terminus of 

 the Tehuantepec Railway. 



Just now this latter 1,100-mile stretch 

 of fertile coast country is without a rail- 

 way service to the north, and European 

 freight arriving over the Tehuantepec 

 Railway must be hauled by water up to 

 Manzanillo and Mazatlan. 



Wagon roads, too, are almost utterly 

 lacking. Interior freight is carried large- 

 ly by burros. In its more prosperous 

 clays thousands of pack-mules were used 

 for carrying the back-country trade of 

 Mazatlan alone. 



THE ENGINEER WHO LOST HIS CAP 



During the last year of the Great War 

 the towns of western Mexico suffered no 



little hardship through lack of transpor- 

 tation ; for weeks at a time not a vessel 

 called at once busy ports like Guaymas. 



Life among American merchants and 

 planters settled on this West Coast is not 

 unlike that of the colonials in India, 

 China, or the Philippines. Servants are 

 numerous and cheap. Fruits and vege- 

 tables grow in abundance. Nobody hur- 

 ries. Nervous breakdowns and "worry" 

 headaches are unheard of. 



Even the leisurely trains reflect the 

 "mahana" spirit. Not long ago I was a 

 guest in the private car of a railroad of- 

 ficial. We were running as a special, but 

 seemed to be moving strangely slow even 

 for a Mexican train. "Go up ahead," the 

 official told our brakeman, "and tell the 

 engineer to speed up a little." 



In a few minutes the brakeman came 

 back and explained : 



