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But the character of the witnesses warrants us in receiving their statements with some incredulity. Bernal Diaz, vol. i. p. 338. Bernal Diaz, vol. i. p. 31, 32. The Paséo at Evening. Ride to Chapultepec. The old Cypresses of Chapultepec. The Capture of Chapultepec. Molina del Rey. Tacubaya. Don Manuel Escandon. The Tobacco Monopoly. The Palace of Escandon. The "Desierto." Hermits.
"In the north of the State of Coahuila, one hundred miles west of the Rio Grande border, lies the little town called Villa de Musquiz. To the north and west of it for two hundred miles stretches the great plain the natives call El Desierto, known on the map as Bolson de Mapini, the resort of none but bandits, smuggler Lipans, and Mescaleros.
The anecdote which I am about to relate will amply prove that religion was, with the Carthusian monks of the Desierto de las Palmas, not the consequence of elevated sentiments, but a mere compound of superstitious practices.
A dispute ensued as to how much he knew, even about the foot of Coropuna. He denied that there were any huts whatever in the canyon. "Abandonado; despoblado; desierto." "A waste; a solitude; a wilderness." So he described it. Had he been there? "No, Señor." Luckily we had been able to make out from the rim of the canyon two or three huts near a little stream.
Wolfgang and Otto armed himself each with a sharp, iron-pointed staff, and silently, with one accord, started toward El Desierto. Why, even they could not have explained, beyond the fact that it seemed a place for hiding things.
The boughs were often breaking down with the bulbs of such epiphytes; but as yet it was early in the season, and only here and there one was in flower. At the top of the hill, still in the midst of the woods, is the Desierto, "the desert," the place we had selected for our noon-day halt. There are many of these Desiertos in Mexico, founded by rich people in old times.
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