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ing broncho of the Southwest) could be 
procured, together with guides, ropers-in, 
etc. 
The fertile soil and warm sunshine of 
Sonora quickens the imagination in away 
unknown in the • northern part of the 
United States, with its colder clime and 
cloudy skies. The day before starting I 
had done a good deal of telegraphing up 
the Sonora railway to learn just where 
these peccaries might be the most numer¬ 
ous, and the replies were enthusiastic as 
well as comical. Carbo sent back word 
that the section men on the railway had 
to “shoo” the jabalis off the track so as 
to repair it; another station reported that 
wild hogs were seen every day except 
Sundays ; another station said there was 
a Yaqui Indian guide there who went out 
with a lasso and a long, sharpened stick, 
