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TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF 



identical wlien smoked, in taste and smell, as we can say from our 

 own experience, with that used by those Indians. It is said to he 

 used hy these Indians, hut we have never seen them using it. They, 

 however, do not use the pipe_, hut confine themselves to the cigarrito, 

 made of the corn-husk. 



The animals found in this country are the brown bear, black-tailed 

 deer, antelope, wild-cat, porcupine, long and short-eared rabbity 

 prairie-dog, "coyote" and "lobo," two varieties of the wolf, and 

 the common fox ; two species of rattlesnake, and the tarantula are 

 also found. The eagle, raven, turkey-buzzard, various kinds of ducks 

 and teal, the "paisano," a species of jay, and what is called the 

 magpie, the wild-turkey, white and sand-hill crane, woodpeckers and 

 wrens, are the principal birds. We do not suppose this list to be 

 complete. 



The annexed table is an abstract from the meteorological register 

 at Fort Defiance, in latitude 35° 40', longitude 109° 14' 30", and at 

 an altitude of about 8,000 feet above the sea, credit being due for the 

 observations taken previous to October, 1854, to the medical ofiicers 

 stationed there before that time. 



ITean temperature of four daihj observations^ and maximum and minimum tem- 

 perature, arid quantity of rain^ in inches, for each inonth, at Fort Defiance, N. M. 



