At Chicahuastla we were on the very summit of the great water-shed, and from it, when the air is clear, one may look down, over a sea of lesser summits and mountain ranges, to the waters of the Pacific.

Along the Pacific coast, in the state of Guerrero, are whole towns of Africans, descendants of slaves, who build their houses after the circular pattern, so common throughout the dark continent.

We did not find in the Triquis any admixture of African blood, but it is possible the mode of house-building may have been influenced by negro example.
Our first glimpse of the town suggested a veritable paradise.

At eleven the sky was clear, the sun almost tropical, the whole country smiled under its warm beams; but at two there came a change.

Fogs, so dense as to shut out the view of what was across the road, drifted down from the summit on which we had seen cloud masses forming.