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with palm thatched roofs with jacales about the edge of town. Our ride up from Tampico brought us across a gently sloping plain with scrubby forest over most of it but with grassy prairies of considerable extent near the station of Chijol & extending back a great distance. A few miles west of Valles the plain abuts abruptly against the foothills of the Cordillera & to the southwest the top of the high mountain (San Juan) that we wish to visit stands up conspicuously when not veiled in clouds. The day we remained over in Valles & waiting for our saddle & pack animals we witnessed one of the fiercest rain storms I