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Title: Two bird-lovers in Mexico
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Beebe, William, 1877-1962
Subjects: Natural history -- Mexico Birds -- Mexico
Publisher: London, A. Constable & company, ltd. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ed we knew the dangers were exagger-ated by these good people — these women who live butthe hundredth part of the life of an American girl. Tlie hotel was clean and neat, the jxitio shaded bymasses of oranges and lemons, wliile tame deer, parrots,burros, dogs, cats, and doves occasionallv wanderedpast our door, or stop))ed to regard us with wonderingeyes. We sent for a cdf/ucrrj guide and arranged for liorsesand a pack-train. Lsfd iino/ bien, Senorita, washis commendation when he learned that she desireda mans saddle. Tlie Mexican women always use amost cumbrous kind of side-saddle, carrying two sad-dles— one facing left aiul one right, that tlu*y may,when (•rani))((l. change tlieir positions; — most uncom-fortable for the occupant and dangerous and i)ainful forthe animal on these steep and rockv trails. Sciioritagained the guides devotion and complete admirationwhen he, idly suggesting a comparison of revolvers,siiw that her weapon, far from being a toy, was better «4 V2\ -^
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::::::3e CAMPING IN A BARRANCA afe:: than his own. Two mules were to be loaded with ourtents, cots, provisions, and other baggage, and we pre-pared to start at daybreak for the wildest barranca onthe edge of the tableland. Our plan was to camp therefor a time, then to move to a lower altitude, and atlast to pitch our tents in the tropical lowlands beyondthe city of Colima. Thus we need never be out ofsight of the ever more wonderful volcano, and yet, byencircling it with a line of camps, we might see someof the wild Mexican life under many conditions andat varying altitudes. At sunset, from an ancient well-curb in the centreof the jjilaza^ we watched the smoke curling slowlyupward from the fire mountain, silhouetted against thesplendour of the western sky. Our hostesses passedus silently, on their way to the picturesque cathedral;they must pray to-night for the soul of a beloved auntwhom they believed to be still in Purgatory ; and soon.the bell ceased to toll, and the low tones of an

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