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undiscerning eye ; tall heavy men ; tall thin men ; the 

 high- shouldered ; men who are neck to their elbows ; the 

 podgy, the bandy-legged, and the knock-kneed ; all com- 

 plexions, from the carroty, sandy, and dust-coloured, to 

 the almost black ; curly and straight, coarse and fine hair ; 

 and all these varying descriptions mixed. 



He is inevitably driven to the conclusion that, physi- 

 cally speaking, the crowd that has passed before him is a 

 mongrel one. Fortunately for its members, they are results 

 of the innumerable crosses of the higher races of mankind 

 with little or no infusion of inferior blood ; but, though con- 

 taining many specimens of the highest forms of beauty, 

 when taken en masse, failing to satisfy critical judgment 

 as does the classical look which depends on typical 

 regularity. 



The whole cast of countenance of the Mojave Indians, 

 every feature of every one of them, is out of the same 

 typical mould; and the mould is in every respect an 

 American and a good one. While many, if not the 

 majority, of the American-Indian tribes are very ugly, as 

 compared with the European ideal of good looks, the 

 Mojave tribe is decidedly a handsome one. 



Unlike all other wild tribes with whom I have had 

 intercourse, the Mojaves do not allege that they have come 

 from anywhere ; on the contrary, they maintain they have 

 always been where they now are. Though in appearance 

 a superior kind of Apache, they claim to be of other stock, 

 and their language is certainly very different from any of 

 the Apache dialects ; all of which, indeed, the Mojave 



