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was organized in our honor. The finest 
cocks in the place were to take part, and 
the presidents or mayor of the town would 
preside. Then, to add distinction to the 
already exciting programme, a baile or ball 
was hastily gotten up for the evening. 
Hospitality could go no farther in this 
out-of-the-way town, for the people were 
really not rich enough to support a bull¬ 
fight. Early in the morning, before the 
population had recovered from the dissipa¬ 
tions of the previous night, we bade our 
hospitable host “good-by,” and, wrapped 
in our heaviest coats against the chill 
morning air, we started southward toward 
Corralitos, about thirty-five or forty miles 
away. After crossing wide mesas and 
threading our way around the bases of 
many picturesque groups of mountains, 
we came to the Casas Grandes River and 
