CHIHUAHUA WESTWARD. 159 
Cusihuiriachic and Carichic we came to 
an adobe building, that departed in a 
very picturesque way from the everlasting 
MEXICAN ADOBE HOUSE FORTIFIED AGAINST APACHE RAIDS. 
mud box style of architecture so common 
to this country, and for which departure 
we had to thank the Apaches. Not that 
they built it, for an Apache never built 
anything except under compulsion, and 
at that time compulsion of these Indians 
was about the scarcest thing in Mexico ; 
but, rather, they compelled the Mexicans 
