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CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS. 
American opinion of Mexican laborers. 
There was no doubt that they were unusu¬ 
ally early risers to their work, as all that 
morning I found evidence of this fact. 
We drove twenty miles before breakfast, 
and passed people going into the city 
who had come as great a distance. As I 
have said, these same people take their 
siesta in the afternoon, and are judged 
accordingly by others who do not get up 
early enough to know what they have done. 
Leaving Chihuahua and bearing west 
toward the Sierra Madres, one finds the 
road even crowded with Mexican trans¬ 
portation, all from the rich silver belt 
now being rapidly developed, chiefly by 
American wealth. There are great carts 
with solid wooden wheels of the 
Nazarene style, the patient donkey of 
the same period, and all so numerous 
