No one seemed to know just how far it was to Chila.

Replies to our inquiries ranged from five to ten leagues.[B] Looking for some mode of conveyance, we refused a coach, offered at fifteen pesos, as the price seemed high.

Hunting horses, we found four, which with a foot _mozo_ to bring them back, would cost twenty pesos.

Telling the owner that we were not buying horses, but merely renting, we returned to the proprietor of the coach and stated that we would take it, though his price was high, and that he should send it without delay to the railroad station, where our companions were waiting.

Upon this the owner of the coach pretended that he had not understood that there were four of us (though we had plainly so informed him); his price was for two.