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much earlier than his Mexican brother, 
who, starting at three o’clock, has to go 
until six or seven to make a respectable 
afternoon’s march. By three o’clock the 
American is generally in camp, having 
made the same distance and having done 
half the work. It is doubtful, however, 
if American mules would do as well here 
under like circumstances. 
After leaving the pretty and pictur¬ 
esque Pasigochic, a high hill is ascended, 
and late that afternoon we passed the 
highest point between the morning and 
evening camps, eighteen hundred feet. 
On the high hills were seen the beau¬ 
tiful madrona tree, or strawberry tree, 
with blood-red bark, and bright green 
and yellow leaves, and covered with white 
blossoms, so startling a mixture of colors 
that it would hardly be believed if painted 
