There are few valleys into which I did not go in this central part of the Tarahumare country, that is, from the Barranca de Batopilas and Carichic in the north toward the regions of the mining place Guadalupe y Calvo in the south.

By and by I also found a suitable lenguaraz, Don Nabor, who lived a day's journey from Guachochic.

He was a tall, lank, healthy-looking fellow, some fifty years old, very poor and blessed with a large family of sons and daughters, some of them full grown.

All his life he had been intimate with the Indians; he spoke their language as well as he did Spanish, and really liked the Tarahumares better than his fellow Mexicans.

Being a great hunter but a poor shot he brought home but little game, and made his living chiefly by trading with the Indians.