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Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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means of illumination. We had crossed the divide, and thewaters now flowed toward the Atlantic.For a day we maintained a high altitudeand were surrounded again by snow, butat last, one morning, began our easterndescent. At twelve oclock on December 9thwe came out on a high bluff, and belowus lay a fertile valley. The forest wasbehind us. As we dropped into theplain, fields of maguey and corn sprangup about us. Adobe huts took the placeof log cabins, and gardens of tuna cac-tus, cultivated for its fruit, lined thetrail. Within three hours the wholeaspect of the country had changed. The trail was crowded with pack-trains of merchandise, the people hadassumed a more conventional air, and atlast, when we forded a river and cameupon a stage road, I knew that the rail-road was near at hand and was not dis-appointed. Two more fordings of theriver, then up a hill, and below us layTepehuanes, and the cozy American rail-road station and lines of rails leadingaway to link it with the world. 333
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BEYOND THE MEXICAN SIERRAS 335 Narrow, crooked streets, lined withadobe huts; Indians lounging in door-ways ; stray pigs and numberless dogs,foraging for refuse; a gray church spire;brown, barren hills rising beyond, ariver winding at their base; the wholebathed in dazzling white sunlight withpatches of ink-black shadows spreadupon the ground—this was Tepehuanesas we rode into it that brilliant Decem-ber afternoon. In the central and more substantialpart of the town we found the HotelInternacional and entered its wide door-way to dismount in the patio. Here aneffusive and polite landlord greeted usand assigned me a room—the best, hedeclared, in his most excellent establish-ment. It had no windows, the stonewalls were damp, and water oozed outof the earthen floor in one corner.There was a bed, however, with mat-tress and clean sheets on it, and thispromise of comfort counterbalanced alldefects. In the little dining room Wilkinsonand I were served with a very gooddinner, and while w

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  • bookid:outing55newy
  • bookyear:1885
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Leisure
  • booksubject:Sports
  • booksubject:Travel
  • bookpublisher:_New_York___Outing_Pub__Co__
  • bookcontributor:Tisch_Library
  • booksponsor:Boston_Library_Consortium_Member_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:347
  • bookcollection:tischlibrary
  • bookcollection:blc
  • bookcollection:americana
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