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Updated: May 14, 2025
My journey was by the same mule-path that Oriental merchants have climbed for centuries, as is shown by the vestiges of that strange race of which Humboldt speaks an inter-mixture of Manillamen and Chinamen with the native race. My traveling companion, who had a pistol, left me and went back at the first venta, or station-house, four leagues from Acapulco.
Nicolaus, twelve miles, there is only a mule-path, but a very good one, winding along on the slope, sometimes high up, and again descending to cross the stream, at first by vineyards and high stone walls, and then on the edges of precipices, but always romantic and wild.
The road for the most part winds by the brink of precipices, walled in with masonry of small stones, where Nature has not shored it up with vast monoliths, and is paved with limestone. It is, of course, merely a mule-path, and it was curious to see, and thrilling to experience, how the mules, vain of the safety of their foothold, kept as near the border of the precipices as possible.
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