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APACHES. 



This predatory tribe have no fixed home, but roam over a large 

 extent of mountainous country that divides the waters of the Del 

 Norte from the waters flowing into the Pacific. Game is scarce, and 

 they gain their subsistence by plundering the settlements of Sonora, 

 Chihuahua, and other lesser towns in the Del Norte valley — whence 

 they supply themselves with large herds of cattle, and choice horses, 

 which enable them to retreat with rapidity and safety. 



98. 



BLACK KNIFE. 



(Painted 1846.) 



An Apache Chief, reconnoitring the command of General Kearney 

 on his march from Santa Fe to California. 



99. 



YIEW ON THE GILA RIVER. 



(Painted 1851.) 



"About two miles from camp, our course was traversed by a 

 seam of yellowish-coloured igneous rock, shooting up into irregular 

 spires and turrets, one or two thousand feet in height. It ran at 

 right angles to the river, and extended to the north and south, in 

 a chain of mountains, as far as the eye could reach. 



" One of these towers was capped with a substance many hundred 

 feet thick, disposed in horizontal strata of different colours, from deep 

 red to light yellow. Partially disintegrated, and lying at the foot 

 of the chain of spires, was a yellowish calcareous sandstone, altered 

 by fire, in large amorphous masses. In one view could be seen clus- 

 tered the Larrea Mexicana, the Cactus, (King) Cactus, (Chandelier) 

 Greenwood Acacia, Chamiza, Prosopis Odorata, and a new variety 

 of Sedge." 



"For a better description of the Landscape, see the Sketch by Mr. 

 Stanley." — Lieut. -Col. W. Emorij's Report to the Secretary of War. 



