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most Indian villages, a mess of filth. The narrow streets 
paved by rough rocks hadeach an oven ditch of mmning water 
in the center in which filth was heared and pigs wallowed, 
The custom here prevalent of making all streets sewers and 
Living them by high walle is as barbarous as it is ugly. The 
few bright spots tolerated in villares are eonfined to the 
patios of the larser residences and the plezes. 
The ride down the canyon of the Huareeonds Piver was ine 
teresting and refreshing, The road lay along the steen canyon 
side or elee followed closely the stream margin on the floor 
of the canyon. The steen canyon sides were without sultivated 
erops but were uniformly grass covered, Bordering the stroam 
was &@ scattered growth of gmall trees and bushes amone which 
I noted the golden flowered cassia, panver trecs, willows, 
alders and others which were not familiar to me, Birds were 
abundant the commonest ones being a metallic green hunmdiné 
bird a black-hsaded grosheak, doves a green paroquetle, a gol- 
Gen flicker several svarrows, ete, On the rocks a few Lizards 
were geen, the first I had noted in Perv. The brides of Choa- 
piyoe was rGached at 4 >. M. andvwe pitched Camp on the river- 
side, At this spot the canyen was amut 190 yards wide which 
Save space enough for the cultivation of several acres of corn 
wheat and potatoes, The sides of the canyon were stean but 
composed of alluvial deposits and were grass covered to thoir 
sumanite which towered 3,009 fest above us. At ths river mar- 
gin was a growth of willow trees and bordering the corn fields 
wore poach and appletrecs in fruit and a native tres of eray~ 
igh apvearance with the foliage of an olive but besring con- 
posite Plowers. Penver tress were numerous but of small sise 
most of them apparently having at one time been ent cown for 
firewood and later on regenerated themselves by a second grow- 
th from the old stmps. I noticed many boulders of whits mar- 
ble atthe roadside but I have seen nowhere roeks ledges or 
rock formation in place, 

