vol. 1.] Customs of the Coyotero Apaches. 167 
scheme of life. There is amongst them a constant round of visit- 
ing one of the expressions of that restlessness which keeps them con- 
tinually on the go. 
Mr. Cooley, who lives among them, is often called upon for med- 
icine and food, and they repay his kindness, without any unneces- 
sary words, in their seasons of abundance. One spring when the 
band was much straitened for food, he supplied a number of them 
with flour without thought of its return. Some time afterward a 
quantity arriving, a gift to them from the government, they request- 
ed him to send his wagon and haul flour to his storehouse. After 
a time, needing the room, he sent a message to the chief to remove 
it, and received the unexpected response that it was his own, in 
payment for that he had furnished them. If money is borrowed 
they expect to and do pay as promptly as white people, but ordina- 
rily if any article is received from a white man it is considered a gift, 
unless return is stipulated. 
There is no set time for eating. The proper period for eating, in 
their estimation, is when they are hungry—if there is anything on 
hand. They are not ordinarily voracious eaters, but after long pri- 
vation they will, like their white brothers in similar circumstances, 
eat until their hunger is appeased—sometimes a great quantity. 
In hunting, fire-arms are used, bows and arrows being almost ob- 
solete. Deer are hunted for their flesh and skins, puma and lynx 
for their skins only. The bear is treated with the utmost respect 
and is only mentioned in whispers and very politely as “ Mr. Bear.” 
It is not hunted, and they will on no account taste the flesh. The 
Indians scarcely use arrows now, and never poisoned ones, as they © 
go no more to war, and fire-arms are more effectual against the 
larger game. The poison formerly used by them was made by 
hanging up the livers of animals until putrid, then mixing with them 
cactus spines ground into powder, the arrows being repeatedly 
dipped into the mixture and as often dried. The flesh of animals 
killed in this way was harmless if thoroughly cooked. 
Many birds are eaten, particularly wild turkeys and quail; but 
geese, ducks and chickens are not eaten, though the latter are raised 
for sale, Pork is despised; some, nicely roasted was given to an 
Apache woman as mutton, but, after eating, she was told the truth, 
and, deeply offended, she made many unavailing efforts to disgorge 
it. Snakes, dogs and insects are not eaten. They will not eat fish, 
