Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala And Honduras — Being the Random Notes of An Incurable Vagabond
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala And Honduras — Being the Random Notes of An Incurable Vagabond
Franck Harry Alverson
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Moreover, the pesky beast had anincurable predilection for treading, like a small boy "showing off, " theextreme edge of pathways at times not six inches from a sheer fall offrom five hundred to a thousand feet down rock-faced precipices. Still it was a pleasant three-hour ride in the brilliant sunshine, winding round and over the hills along pitching and tossingtrails. Peons obsequiously lifted their hats when I passed, which theydo not to a man afoot; a solemn stillness of rough-and-tumble mo...untainsand valleys, with deep-shadowed little gorges scolloped out of theotherwise sun-flooded landscape, broad hedges of cactus and pitchingpaths, down which the animal picked its way with ease and assurance, alternated with mighty climbs over a dozen rises, each of which Ifancied the last. La Luz is a typical town of mountainous Mexico. A long, broken adobevillage lies scattered along a precipitous valley, scores of "roads" andtrails hedged with cactus wind and swoop and climb again away over steephills and through deep _barrancos_, troops of peons and donkeysenlivening them; flowers give a joyful touch, and patches of green andthe climate help to make the place reminiscent of the more thicklysettled portions of Palestine.
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