visit the Tesuque mission, he had
followed a stream and come upon
this spot, where he found a little
Mexican house and a garden shad-
ed by an apricot tree of such great
size as he had never seen before.
It had two trunks, each of them
thicker than a man's body, and
though evidently very old, it was
full of fruit. The apricots were
large, beautifully coloured, and of
superb flavor...."