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a blanket. These blankets are usually of 
a dark brown color, with one or two dark 
yellow stripes across them at the ends. 
Being “ all wool and a yard wide ” they 
are quite warm, much warmer than some 
Mexican woolen blankets that I bought 
at Chihuahua, which seemed better calcu¬ 
lated to keep the heat out on the cold 
nights in the mountains than to keep it in. 
The civilized Tarahumaris are quite 
cleanly for savages, noticeably more so 
than the lower order of Mexicans, and 
yet there is plenty of room, great, un¬ 
swept back counties of it, for improve¬ 
ment in this respect. 
After leaving the interesting little vil¬ 
lage of Naqueachic we at once started 
over a high range or crest some twenty- 
nine hundred feet above our level, and 
from the top could look down in a beauti- 
