A woman in delicate condition wanted me to feel her pulse and to tell her from that when her child was going to be born.

I only hope that my practical advice and the little medicine I could give them relieved some of their backaches and sideaches, their felons, croups, and fevers and agues, and above all, their indigestion, which is the prevailing trouble in that section of the country.

But I confess that I was nearly tired out with these consultations.

In consequence of frequent intermarriages there are many deaf and dumb persons among them, and epilepsy and insanity are by no means rare.
On the other hand, I was assured that such a character as a thief was here unknown.

However this might be, it was certain that the Mexicans of Eastern Sonora were a nice class of people.