The crash had come without a moment's warning.
Fortunately, the mule was unhurt, though it could not move until the branches which had crushed it to the earth had been cut away with axes.
When we had released the beast and were retiring to our quarters, we saw a sight never to be forgotten.

Looking down from our crest into the valley and across upon the other ridges and mountains beyond, we saw that the camp-fires of charcoal-burners and wayfarers had been fanned by the winds and spread into the forest until a dozen great lines of blazing trees lit up the landscape in every direction.
Our leaving Ixcuintepec in the early morning was not agreeable.

The teachers were irritated over the affair of the _zacate_; the town authorities were dissatisfied with our refusal to pay for two lots of it.

There was grumbling, and many dark looks followed us.

We were rather glad to get away from the town without a serious outbreak.