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it a brown stain which looks permanent, - spiny Agaves with great tafts of spiny leaves 6 feet long, 2 or 3 shrubby Crotons in flower, several Cordias, large and small, the large one looking much like an elder, several Lantanas, some with white or pink flowers, another with a brilliant orange-red flower, and so on. Strange birds sang around me or flitted thru the bushes, and the omnipresent Buzzards wheeled overhead. Frequently I passed skeletons of horses which they had picked clean. Little striped lizards scampered thru the bushes or among the leaves, and [[strikethrough]] + [[strikethrough]] in one place I saw a very tame hummingbird with a green head who perched on a twig close to me.

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I bought a bar of chocolate, very rough and coarse grained, + some crackers in a little store where the native insisted on talking English to me, and then set out on my Travels. I passed thru the poorer part of the city, where the most conspicuous inhabitants were goats, kids, donkeys, + curly-tailed little dogs, and finally struck the main Moro Road, along which I walked for [[strikethrough]] nearl [[strikethrough]] an hour and a half. It reminded me very much of some of my walks in the foothills of California, dusty and dried-up to a degree. The little hills were scantily covered with low shrubs - spiny Acacias + a holly-like plant, - the juice of which got on my nose, made it smart, + gave