... delight in the noise he was making. But his grinning andgesticulating brought a laughing company into the dining-room. There was nothing in this room but what wasabsolutely necessary. The floor ... hills, crowned with the evergreen cedar, and the shining waters of the Colorado wound in and out among these hills, and then swept grandly round the southern part of the city. For a minute or two Senor ... of the stream, barking at us, as we passed. It was the most unearthly sail the imagination can picture, in no way made more human by the half-clothed negroesmanaging the flaming torches, and the...