THE RETURN BY ANOTHER TRAIL. 357 
o’clock in the morning it was two or three 
o’clock in the afternoon before we reached 
the welcome shelter of the next station, 
and it seemed to me from beginning to 
end one uninterrupted climb. This sta¬ 
tion on the Teboreachic was an exception 
to the rest on the trail regarding distance, 
for it is only eighteen miles from the Po- 
trero, although eighteen miles of incessant 
uphill work. While the trail is by no 
means as steep or dangerous as that lead¬ 
ing into the Urique barranca, it is fully as 
long a climb to reach the top or cumbra, 
and one does not welcome a retreat to 
the somber pines with half the enthusi¬ 
asm inspired by a descent into the tropical 
foliage of the deep barrancas. I have 
already described so many ascents and 
descents, that carried us from one kind of 
climate to another, that I hardly think it 
