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But this was easily compensated for when she suggested making several visits during the season with the Vaux girls, chums of hers, who lived on the Frio about thirty miles due north of Las Palomas. This was fortunate, since the Vaux ranch and ours were on the most friendly terms. We returned by the route by which we had left the grounds.
He showed to me pieces of cordage, pottery, and stone implements brought down by the rubber men from the wild Indians of the Rio Frio. Castillo is one of the centres of the rubber trade. Parties of men are here fitted out with canoes and provisions, and proceed up the rivers, far into the uninhabited forests of the Atlantic slope.
The City of Mexico lies west of Rio Frio mountain, on a plain backed by another mountain six miles farther west, with others still nearer on the north and south. Between the western base of Rio Frio and the City of Mexico there are three lakes, Chalco and Xochimilco on the left and Texcoco on the right, extending to the east end of the City of Mexico.
I shall have other occasions, in the course of my narrative, to show how careful a traveller in Central America must be not to accept the explanations of the natives of the names of places and things. The first people who ascended the Rio Frio were attacked by the Indians, who killed several with their arrows.
"I'll see how yo' are makin' it in the mo'ning." "Why, where are yuh goin'?" Red asked in surprise. "Goin' after Gentleman John." Kid Wolf smiled. "How far is it to his headquartahs at Agua Frio?" "About nine miles straight west, over the mesa. But say, yuh'd better let one of us go with yuh." The Texan shook his head. "I'm playin' a lone hand, Red.
The City of Mexico lies west of Rio Frio mountain, on a plain backed by another mountain six miles farther west, with others still nearer on the north and south. Between the western base of Rio Frio and the City of Mexico there are three lakes, Chalco and Xochimilco on the left and Texcoco on the right, extending to the east end of the City of Mexico.
The Vaux family were of creole extraction, but had settled on the Frio River nearly a generation before. Under the climatic change, from the swamps of Louisiana to the mesas of Texas, the girls grew up fine physical specimens of rustic Southern beauty.
Through the mistress, arrangements had been made for the front rooms in both John's cottage and mine to be floored instead of cemented. Some two weeks before Easter Sunday, Cotton returned from the Frio, where he had been making a call on his intended.
At an early morning hour I stood upon the heights of Rio Frio; at another morning, as already said, at the Cross of the Marquis; again, upon the highest peak of the Tepeyaca, behind Guadalupe, I saw a tropical morning sun disengage itself from the snowy mountains.
Have you heard tell of the famous diamond of Abaete, which was valued at more than two million contos of reis? Well, this stone, which weighed an ounce, came from the Brazilian mines! And they were three convicts yes! three men sentenced to transportation for life who found it by chance in the River Abaete, at ninety leagues from Terro de Frio."
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