India rubber world . he then seemed to feel that her offspring wasgetting the leche that really flowed into a calabas/i. In a littleoasis of trees in this prairie of rich short grass, was a neat na-tive house in which lived the keeper of the herd and his , almost to emaciation, was Don Raimon, gray haired, withthe sparse beard of the true Indian, clad in white; he was theonly energetic native that I saw on the peninsula. Donna Ma-ria, his spouse, short, fat, and comely, in calico dress and blouse,barefooted, with a mans hat on her head, her own pipe inmouth, surrounded by hens and dog
India rubber world . he then seemed to feel that her offspring wasgetting the leche that really flowed into a calabas/i. In a littleoasis of trees in this prairie of rich short grass, was a neat na-tive house in which lived the keeper of the herd and his , almost to emaciation, was Don Raimon, gray haired, withthe sparse beard of the true Indian, clad in white; he was theonly energetic native that I saw on the peninsula. Donna Ma-ria, his spouse, short, fat, and comely, in calico dress and blouse,barefooted, with a mans hat on her head, her own pipe inmouth, surrounded by hens and dogs, she cooked in a placidway that was most picturesque and restful. We slept at theirhouse one night, but on the second visit signalled the schoonerand went aboard to sleep, away from the various insects thatalways infest a cattle ranch. It was during a visit to the llanos that we nearly lost the Pros-pector. It came about this way : From the time of the Span-iards the country has been known asagold producer. Indeed,. NATIVE RUBBfR CUTTER WITH MACHETE AND CALABASH. January i, 1905.] THE INDIA RUBBER V/ORLD 113 every brook and river showed traces of color, while traditionsof lost mines and their fabulous riches were everywhere we were not after gold, but rubber, the lost mines, or thesunken treasure ship at the mouth of the Marieto, troubled usnot at all. That is, not until the Miner came across the moun-tains and rode into our camp with atrue Western yell. He was a rawboned, good humored, shrewd, Irish-Ametican, who had been in every min-ing camp in North America and whowas now developing the Gallo (GoldenCock) mine. He and the Prospectorgot together at once and the air full of andesite, quarlz and they got whispering and laterparted. It was at the llanos that it allcame to a head, for it was there thatthe Prospector began furtively to studya small diagram, and later stole awayaccompanied by an Indian whom hehad hypnotized by the gift of a took a
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