. Campfires on desert and lava . nspector of Immi-gration—A Man of Many Gun Episodes. A HUNDRED times over, as I have looked on the mapsat the queer Papago-Indian name Sonoyta—the onlyname printed on the long, bare stretch of 234 miles betweenNogales and the Colorado River—I have wondered aboutthat lonesome little spot. So far as I have read, no oneever has taken the trouble to write more than ten linesregarding the ensemble of the place and its people, andeverything was left to the imagination. In my mindseye, Horatio, it finally took shape as a hamlet of swash-bucklers and ex-criminals of tw
. Campfires on desert and lava . nspector of Immi-gration—A Man of Many Gun Episodes. A HUNDRED times over, as I have looked on the mapsat the queer Papago-Indian name Sonoyta—the onlyname printed on the long, bare stretch of 234 miles betweenNogales and the Colorado River—I have wondered aboutthat lonesome little spot. So far as I have read, no oneever has taken the trouble to write more than ten linesregarding the ensemble of the place and its people, andeverything was left to the imagination. In my mindseye, Horatio, it finally took shape as a hamlet of swash-bucklers and ex-criminals of two nations, a tough Amer-ican with a saloon and gambling-place, an adobe churchwith a cross atop, a priest, a Mexican custom-house andpost-office, and a fringe of real *blanket Indians. By the morning of November 8th, I was almost con-sumed with curiosity; and then we found that in not oneparticular did Sonoyta resemble my imaginary picture ofit! I was glad that it did not. On overlooking the Sonoyta Oasis from the north—. ?n jj THE SONOYTA OASIS 85 which for some curious reason no one ever has called anoasis until now—^we saw a compromise between desertand running water. Near at hand, along the north, afringe of compact, willowy jungle marks the course of theriver. Beyond that lies a line of naked-November fields;then a long, hedge-like line of bushes starting in good formon the left, with a scattering of tall trees, and at the extreme
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