CHAPTER X. 
SOUTHWESTERN CHIHUAHUA-THE RETURN 
BY ANOTHER TRAIL-THE CANON OF 
THE CHURCHES-AMONG THE CLIFF 
DWELLERS. 
A FTER bidding adieu to our hospita- 
ble host and the many friends at 
the great hacienda, we started quite late 
in the afternoon to ride about eight or 
nine miles up the Batopilas River to a 
station of the Batopilas Mining Com¬ 
pany called the Potrero. On either side 
the Batopilas lifts its banks frorp four to 
five and even to six thousand feet above 
the river bed, making a wonderfully beau¬ 
tiful panorama of rugged mountain scen¬ 
ery as you wind along, sometimes climb- 
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