Passing through a dense jungle of vegetation, where the air was hot and wet, the flora was characteristic.

Trees with large, coarse, broad pods enclosing two or three great seeds, trees with acorn-shaped red fruits, quantities of sensitive plants covered with pink flowers, occasional orchids bearing flowers of brilliant flame color, and vines with lovely blue pea-flowers made up the bulk of the tangled growth through which we passed.

At two places we crossed pretty streams, with cascades and narrow gorges, opening on to the gorge along the sides of which we were travelling; where these streams crossed our trail there were great masses of caladiums with their leaves of green velvet.

We passed two little coffee plantations, the first of which was sadly neglected and overgrown with weeds, the second neatly kept.

From this we rose again, and having gained the summit, looked down upon the village of San Juan Zautla.
Riding to the town-house, we met the _presidente_ and _secretario_, the latter an intelligent fellow, who told us that the town was dwindling, numbering at present but 80 _contribuentes_.