The man who thus exclaims is seated in a high-peak saddle, on the back of a small sinewy horse. Not alone, as may be deduced from his words; instead, in company with other men on horseback, quite a score of them. There are several wagons, too; large cumbrous vehicles, each with a team of eight mules attached. Other mules, pack animals, form an _atajo_ or train, which extends in a long line rearward, and back beyond this a drove of cattle in charge of two or three drovers--these mounted, as a matter of course. The place is in the middle of a vast plain, one of the _llanos_ of Sonora, near the northern frontier of this sparsely inhabited state. And the men themselves, or most of them, are min…
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