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CA VE AND CLIFF D WELLERS. 
doubt that there were a dozen people 
inside of each, peeping at us from around 
the dark corners, having heard our 
approach and fled in time to keep well 
out of our sight. Nothing is noisier 
than a Mexican mule packer, and the 
mountains are always resounding with his 
pious shouting to his lazy, plodding 
animals as he urges them on ; so I con¬ 
sidered it very lucky indeed that we saw 
as many of the living cave and cliff 
dwellers as we actually did, so excessively 
shy are these poor, timid creatures. 
One of our Mexican packers tried to 
buy a sheep of one of the civilized Tara- 
humaris a little farther on, but he would 
not part with one for any money, although 
apparently having plenty to spare. Many 
of the pueblos of the civilized Tara- 
humaris are really isolated communities, 
