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CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS. 
The Mexican town of Urique, number¬ 
ing some three thousand people, was first 
established in 1612, years before the first 
pilgrim landed on Plymouth Rock, and 
yet it is as unknown as though in the 
interior of Africa. That living cave and 
cliff dwellers should be found but a little 
way off from the rough and even dan¬ 
gerous trail that leads to the secluded 
town which no one troubled himself to 
report to the world outside, shows what a 
wonderful isolation can exist and still be 
called civilization. The only way out of 
and into the town was on the back of the 
melancholy mule, and an old resident told 
me he believed that three-fourths of the 
people had never seen a wagon, not even 
the wooden carts of the Mexicans that so 
remind one of scriptural times ; certainly 
no wagon or cart was ever hauled through 
