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flannels only would be comforta¬ 
ble. 
My stay at Batopilas was somewhat 
prolonged in waiting for a party that was 
soon to descend with bullion to Chihua¬ 
hua. I had originally intended to continue 
my course toward the Pacific, but the hot 
weather, more severe in May and June 
than during July and August, owing to the 
rainy season tempering the latter, and the 
fact that I could find a more interesting 
trip through the Sierra Madres by another 
trail than that by which I had entered, 
determined me to turn my face eastward 
and keep on the high plateau with its 
grand equable climate. In leaving Ba¬ 
topilas the large pack train carrying the 
bullion was given two days’ start, and we 
were to ride and join them after they had 
made the cumbra or crest of the moun- 
