CHAPTER XXVI. 



The Colorado Bottoms Coal Climate Gum The Mojave Indians A 

 thoroughbred Look Their Diet Mojave Costumes "Fixed to Kill" 

 Cha-Cha Divinity of the Human Form. 



THE Colorado "bottoms" merit some attention, principally 

 because they are far from the beaten highways of travel. 

 They are remote very. Murray treateth not of them. 

 There Cook's great name is all unknown. His ticket 

 availeth not. His coupon serve th but to light a pipe ! 

 The beglassed, bestrapped, beguided, and bewildered tourist, 

 veiled, umbrella'd, alpenstocked, knickerbockered, flasked, 

 and sandwichboxed, infesteth not the land. The tax-gatherer 

 doth not vex. The undertaker's hammer is not heard. And 

 no man weareth a box-hat. 



The " bottoms " are a succession of valleys, or rather 

 one valley of ever-varying width, and of an almost dead 

 level. The gradual downward slope amounts only to 

 a descent of eleven hundred feet in nearly two hun- 

 dred and fifty miles. The soil is a sandy alluvial 

 deposit of irregular depth, an accumulation during past 

 ages of deposit from the river ; for the Colorado has 

 its regular annual flood. Early in June an immense 



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