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a very small mirror, evidently regarded 
as a profane thing and not to be used. 
In the center of the room was a small 
strip of faded green Brussels carpet. 
The whole place had a most depressing 
air, and the bare earthen room outside 
was beautiful by comparison, for in the 
latter we had the sunshine, and could see 
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the lovely blue sky, and all around the 
horizon, the rolling, tree-covered hills, 
with the distant peaks of the Sierra 
Madres in the background. Nature had 
been very lavish with this place, and at 
every point of the compass it was pic¬ 
turesque and beautiful in the extreme. 
About Carichic the soil is wonderfully 
fertile and the grass luxuriant. A lovely 
little mountain river winds by on one 
side of the village. The people are 
principally the civilized Tarahumari In- 
