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cloth between his legs and tied before and behind to the string, 

 while the third had neither ribbon or string. Their faces were 

 broad, co.irse, and brutal ; their heads large, and covered by 

 a fearful mat of hair, while the skin of their bodies, naturally dark 

 brown, was almost black from continual exposure. And they 

 gazed in dumb amazement at me, as I caught the little silvery- 

 blue gems. At length, getting the idea, they began to try to 

 help me. They chased about nimbly among the sharp cactus 

 spines to catch the butterflies in their hands, and really did so 

 catch several, and offered them to me, but I refused them, and 

 made the little rascals stop crushing the tiny things in their great 

 paws. These boys had their bows and arrows, which they did 

 not lay down. The bows were of oak sapling, very roughly made, 

 and the arrows were straight splints of wood, illy pointed, not 

 poisoned, and spirally feathered with some care, the wings being 

 gummed to the shaft with the pitch of the pitaya cactus, and the 

 string of the bow was home-made from fibres of the agave. One 

 offered to sell his bows and arrows for " dos real," (25 cents.) 

 They called butterflies " palometer," and sphinges "mariposa." 

 They said that their house was on the cliff, and 1 went up there 

 with them to see in what state they lived. It was an open place 

 between the larger rocks, just like a sheep pen, and all the house 

 there was consisted in a little brush thrown in, fence-like, only 

 that and nothing more. No roof, no shelter at all, no fire-place 

 except three stones. And lounging about were thirty or forty 

 adult Indian savages, playing with Spanish cards, or gambling 

 with sticks, or dozing. From appearances, they had lived there 

 a long time. After watching their doings for a long wdiile, I 

 turned to go away, and came wirhin an inch of stepping upon a 

 squaw who was curled up in a little hole or hollow, asleep. She 

 started up in alarm, and in silence sat and stared at me with her 

 great black eyes, and, for all I know, she is gazing yet. 



Following is a list of species observed, except the Heterocera, 

 which are not yet determined : 



Pieris Occidentalis, 



Sisyvibrii, 

 AntJiocJiaris Sara, 



Cctlmra, 

 Co lias Harfordii, 



A riadne, 

 Danais Archippiis, 



Berenice, 

 Vanessa Antiopa, 

 Pyravfis Huntera, 

 Car din, 

 Carye, 



Jiinonia Cccnia, 

 Lemonias Virgiilti, 

 Charis Nemesis, 

 Lyccena A ntiacis, 

 Sonorensis, 

 Piasiis, 

 A my?itula. 

 Ex His, 

 Phyciodes Mylittm, 

 Pyrgiis t esse lata, 

 -Thanaos Tristis. 



