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CAVE AND CUFF DWELLERS. 
full fury of a Sonora thunderstorm. Its 
worst feature was its persistency. I 
never saw a thunderstorm hang on for 
six or seven hours before in all my life, 
but this did, much to our personal dis¬ 
comfort, and, worst of all, to the serious 
detriment of the hunt. 
Arriving at the ranch, we found that 
the Yaqui Indian guide, who, by the way, 
was a famous peccary hunter, was absent, 
working on a distant part of the hacienda. 
Now a hacienda or ranch in Sonora is 
about as large as a county in most of our 
States, and it requires efficient messenger 
service to get over one inside of half a 
day. We sent for him, however, and as a 
small boy present volunteered the infor¬ 
mation that he thought he could guide 
the party to where a pig might be lurk¬ 
ing in the brush, we concluded we would 
