Everyone in the district carries _tinajas_, or little sacks woven from splints of palm.

Here, for the first time, we noticed that many of these had decorated patterns worked in black splints on the lighter ground.

The blackness of these splints is given by exposure to the smoke of burning pine.
Carrying-straps, also made of palm, are used for adjusting these _tinajas_ to the back.
From San Pedrito the road is over a soft rock, which produces, when worn, a white glaring trail.

The country through which we passed was fertile.

Everywhere were fields of grain, wheat, oats, and, as we were descending into the lower land, corn.