The Indians here, although many of them have been affected by the nearness of the mines, are reticent and distrustful, and our guide evidently had not much influence with them.

They refused to be photographed, and even the gobernador ran away from the terrible ordeal.
During the several days I remained in this valley the heat never varied from 100 deg., day and night, which was rather trying and made doing anything an exertion.

The country looked scorched, except for the evergreen cacti, the most prominent of which was the towering pithaya.

Its dark-green branches stand immovable to wind and storm.

It has the best wild fruit growing in the north-western part of Mexico, and as this was just the season when it ripens, the Indians from all around had come to gather it.