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Here found in thickets called "chapparals,"
interspersed with the more succulent vegetation of _cactus_ and
_agave_,
as also the _yucca_, or dragon-tree of the Western Hemisphere. In this
particular section of it almost every
tree and plant carries thorns. Even certain grasses are armed with
prickly spurs, and sting the hand that touches them; while the
reptiles crawling among them are of the most venomous species;
scorpions and centipedes, with snakes having ossified tails, and a
frog furnished with horns! The last, however, though vulgarly believed
to be a batrachian, is in reality a lizard--the _Agama cornuta_. This
plain, extending over thirty
miles from east to west, and twice the distance
in a longitudinal direction, has
on one side
the valley of the San Saba, on the other certain creeks tributary to
the Colorado. On one of these the prairie pirates have a home, or
haunt, to which they retire only on particular occasions, and for
special purposes. Under circumstances of this kind they are now _en
route_ for

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