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mous with that of the Apaches, this stone was 

 discovered by Major Frederick Russell Burnham, 

 the scout and explorer. 



It was Burnham who in the second Matabele 

 war was ordered by Sir Frederick Carrington 

 to capture or kill the Matabele god Umlima, and 

 who forced his way through thousands of natives 

 with a single companion, killed the trouble 

 maker in his cave in the Matopa Mountains, and 

 made his escape by a dash which stands in mili- 

 tary history as a remarkable and unprecedented 

 feat of heroism and courage. 



Major Burnham observed the stone in the 

 heart of the giant cactus forest about six miles 

 from the Rio Yaqui near Esperanza, not far from 

 the ancient town of Corcorit, in 1908; and in 

 April, 1909, he proposed to the author to re-locate 

 it, which resulted in its discovery again by Major 

 Burnham, after a graphic illustration of the 

 qualities of this famous Indian fighter and scout, 

 in running down game, human or ethnologic. 



It might appear a simple procedure to re-locate 

 a stone weighing several tons, known to be 

 within from twenty to eighty miles of the an- 

 cient native towns of Potam, Bicam, Potim, 

 Bacum, and Corcorim of the delta, shown on 

 the Spanish maps of the seventeenth century, 

 whose location is well known to-day, but the 

 difficulties may be illustrated when it is learned 

 that in a two minutes' walk into this maze of 



