Camp and camino in Lower California; a record of the adventures of the author while exploring peninsular California, Mexico . ^, a Mexican passportdescribing me as «« soltero (a bachelor), whereupon myinqulsitress asked whether any Americans married. As-suredly, she concluded, amid concurring nods from hermates, all that have ever come here have stoutly averredthat they were bachelors. I dont wonder, I replied, with an admiring glance atthe pretty bevy. Certainly there might be compensationsfor being marooned at Mulege. From Mulege there are two camlnos to Purisima, onevia the San Sebastian Ar
Camp and camino in Lower California; a record of the adventures of the author while exploring peninsular California, Mexico . ^, a Mexican passportdescribing me as «« soltero (a bachelor), whereupon myinqulsitress asked whether any Americans married. As-suredly, she concluded, amid concurring nods from hermates, all that have ever come here have stoutly averredthat they were bachelors. I dont wonder, I replied, with an admiring glance atthe pretty bevy. Certainly there might be compensationsfor being marooned at Mulege. From Mulege there are two camlnos to Purisima, onevia the San Sebastian Arroyo, the other by way of Zapoteand the Guadalupe Arroyo. As Professor Gabb had taken. rt P^ <u TH tJ3 G <D 3 3 O bC cj Oo .^ ^ TO LORETO 197 the latter in 1867, I chose the San Sebastian camino. Frommy own observations the route a traveler does not select,he later decides was necessarily the better. Via the SanSebastian camino the distance is thirty-one leagues, the di-rection southwest. As I left Mulege early the morning of April the i8th,the world seemed in perfect peace, the mission bells wereringing and there was no sympathetic sign of the greatnatural disturbance that was bringing disaster upon the busymetropolis of the State of California. That afternoonCoronado began to fail. The following morning, beforebreakfast, I endeavored to secure a new burro, a vaquerohaving one for sale. As he declined to execute a bill ofsale, the transaction fell through. (Later, I ascertainedthat the man had no title to the burro.) When the animalswere saddled I had Coronados pack transferred to myriding burro and I proceeded on foot; such relief proved ofno avail, and a few ho
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