no 
CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS . 
and brought in a peccary every morning 
before breakfast ; while Torres thought I 
could have jabali about three miles from 
there. This was the most modest report 
and the nearest station, so I decided on 
Torres. 
The country along the southern por¬ 
tion of the Sonora railway would be 
interesting in the extreme to one un¬ 
familiar with tropical or sub-tropical 
countries. Its vegetation was most 
curious, and the surrounding country 
picturesque. Fine scenery can, indeed, 
be viewed in a thousand places in our 
own country, but it is not characterized 
with such a wonderful plant growth as 
we saw that morning on our way to the 
slaughter grounds of the peccaries. Here 
was the universal mesquite, looking like 
a dwarfed apple tree, and that affords the 
