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PREFACE. 
easily divides itself into three quite 
distinct trips, the first from Deming, 
N. M., southward into the northwestern 
part of the State of Chihuahua; the 
second through the central part of the 
State of Sonora; and the third and most 
important from the city of Chihuahua, 
in the State of the same name, westward 
into the Sierra Madre range, that forms 
the boundary between the States of 
Sonora and Chihuahua on the northern 
part of the travels, and Durango and 
Sinaloa on the southern. 
None of the travels can be strictly 
called exploration, although often alluded 
to as such in the American press, yet 
there were a few interesting and impor- 
ant facts disclosed by the researches that 
almost amounted to discoveries in the 
light of the very little that was generally 
