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CAVE AND CUFF DWELLERS. 
valley, and along this stream, literally alive 
with ducks, we traveled for some hours. 
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It was a great temptation to get out the 
guns and shoot at the ducks that were 
calmly sailing by us on the broad and 
rapid stream ; but as we had neither dog 
nor boat it would have been impossible 
to secure them had we done so. The 
consoling thought was ours that the 
hacienda was not far distant, and there 
we would likely find everything necessary 
to assist us in this or any other sport. 
Approaching the hacienda we passed 
immense droves of horses and cattle graz¬ 
ing on the rich bottom lands. Corralitos 
has a very pretty, an almost poetical name, 
but it loses much of its romantic charac¬ 
ter when it is known that it is named for 
some old, dilapidated sheep pens that 
once existed here, corralitos being little 
