Fruit is cultivated, and the houses are frequently embowered in trees; in many yards are bee-hives.

The valley is abundantly watered with little streams of perfect clearness.
The _presidente_ had insisted that the school teacher at Huancito would prove invaluable.

He gave us a letter of introduction to him, and an order upon the authorities.

We were at once given possession of the schoolhouse for our work, and I started out to find a subject.

Almost the first person encountered was a young man of twenty-three years, who presented the pure Tarascan type.