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Gila Crossing, Salt River. The Pimas went on a campaign 

 against the Apaches and one of their numVier was killed. His fel- 

 lows burned the corpse witli the bow and war gear. Dry ironwood 

 was used in the cremation." 



In the same engagement another Pima was wound('(l and came 

 home to die. 



Gila Crossing. The Punas soon afterwards went to the moun- 

 tains nortli of Tempe to seek Apaches. Tv. o of their party 

 were killed and a third came home mortally wounded. 

 •o""o BlacJcwater. Another war party attacked an Apache camp, 

 described as the one at which the children were })laying and 

 piling up gourds, and killed several of the enemy. 



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Gila Crossing. Many died this year of a sickness characterized by 

 shooting pains that resembled needle and knife pricks. One day the 

 three medicine-men who were accused of having caused the disease 

 came home drimk from the Gila Bend stage station and were set upon 

 by their fellow-villagers. Two were killed and the other was seriously 

 but not fatally wounded. 



Gih. Crossing, Salt River. This year was marked by a devastating 

 fever at Rso'tftk and three medicine-men were killed there in the hope 

 ■of stopping it. 



JBlachwater. A party of Pimas accompanied the soldiers to 

 the Verde region and there killed a number of Apaches, among 

 whom was a man with a very l(jng foot. 



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A^ Gila Crossing. l)\u-ing this year a tlisease prevailed that from 

 the description would seem to have been malaria. Many died, 

 and the medicine-men were blamed, as usual, for the calamity. Two 

 were killed before the disease abated. 



Blackwater. The Pimas went raiding in the Superstition 

 Mountain region and killed one Apache who was running 

 away with his shield but who stumbled and fell. 



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 Gila Crossing. A heavy rain caused a flootl which destroyed the 

 store at Casa Blanca.* 



This was known as the Vamati Tcoki, Snake ram. 



o This custom of burning tlie dead is occasionally referred to in these annals, though my informants 

 always insisted that this method was never resorted to by their people except in the case of thos.' killed 

 in war. 



b The store was more than 2 miles south of the channel of the river, but it had been built at the foot 

 of a little rise upon which the present village is located and was within the reach of the flood. This 

 is but one of many instances where the white settlers of Arizona have not profited \>y the experience 



