We have stated that we paid for four animals to bring our baggage hither, while but three were actually employed; the animals, both pack and passenger, started on their journey for Huachinango at half-past-four in the afternoon, though we had paid both beast and man two full days' wages.
[Illustration] [Illustration] Tlacuilotepec is a dependency of Pahuatlan.

We started for our day's trip thither on a good lot of animals, at eight o'clock in the morning, with two foot _mozos_ for carriers.

The journey was delightful.

For a little, we followed a trail down the left-hand bank of a fine ravine.
Nearly at the foot we struck to the left, through a little cut, and were surprised to find ourselves upon the right-hand slope of another gulf of immense depth.

A few minutes later, we reached the point where the two streams united.