To facilitate the ascent, steps, now worn and old, had been cut for a distance of a couple of hundred feet.

I made my way among the Indian ranches to Norogachic, the residence of the only priest living at present in the Tarahumare country.

The name of the place contains an allusion to a certain rock in the vicinity.

There is another priest who pays some attention to the Tarahumares, but he lives in Nonoava, and makes only annual visits to baptise infants or marry their elders who wish for the blessings of the Church..