CHAPTER X.
Nice-looking Natives--Albinos--Ancient Remains in Ohuivo--Local Traditions, the Cocoyomes, etc .-- Guachochic--Don Miguel and "The Postmaster"-- A Variety of Curious Cures--Gauchochic Becomes My Head-quarters--The Difficulty of Getting an Honest Interpreter--False Truffles--The Country Suffering from a Prolonged Drought--A Start in a Northwesterly Direction--Arrival at the Pueblo of Norogachic.
Followed the river a day's journey up and noticed some small tobacco plantations on the banks.

I met some good-looking people, who had come from Tierras Verdes, the locality adjoining on, the south.

Their movements were full of action and energy.

Their skins showed a tinge of delicate yellow, and as the men wore their hair in a braid, they had a curious, oriental appearance.

The women looked well in black woollen skirts and white tunics.