“Seven or eight, I should think.”

The old merchant shook his head.

“I’m pretty well fixed,” he said, “but I couldn’t stand for anything like that. Those halls would cost half a million apiece.”

Courtesy of American Museum of Natural History.

Into the Heart of Mexico.

Museum expedition leader in the Tree Cactus Country.

Carrying Shell of Glyptodont

Eight Mexican peons bearing armor of giant armadillo.