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the wealth of place-names aud the strongly accentuated contiguration 

 which the iionienclatnre expresses, Seriland is one of the most hopeless 

 deserts of the American hemisphere. 



Acknowledgments 



Since most of the field worli of the two expeditious lay in the neigh- 

 boring Republic of Mexico, it became necessary to ask official sanction 

 for the operations from the Mexican government; and it is a pleasure 

 to say that every possible privilege and courtesy were extended by 

 both federal and state ofiBcials. Especial acknowledgments are due to 

 the Mexican minister (and afterward ambassador) to the United 

 States, his P^xcellency Don Mateo Komero (now deceased); to the 

 Ministro de Fomento of the Mexican Republic, Excelencia Don Fer- 

 nando Leal; and to the gx)vernor of the State of Sonora, Senor Don 

 Ramon Corral. Equal acknowledgments are due to various United 

 States officials, notably Honorable W. Woodville Eockhill, First Assis- 

 tant Secretary of State when the expeditious were planned; and it is 

 a pleasure to advert to the active interest taken in both expeditions by 

 Honorable S. P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and 

 to the careful attention given the 1894 expedition by the late Dr Gr. 

 Brown Goode, Assistant Secretarj' of the Institution. 



Mr Willard D. Johnson did invaluable service in connection with 

 the second expedition, particularly in the execution of surveys and the 

 construction of maps in inimitable style. Mr William Dinwiddle is to 

 be credited with the excellent photographs made during the 1894 expe- 

 dition, with the representation of the devices used in Seri face-paint- 

 ing, and with various other aids to the investigation ; while Mr J. W. 

 Mitchell is to be credited with the photographs made on Isla Tiburon, 

 aud with other contributions to the success of the 1895 expedition. 

 Acknowledgments are due also to all of the participants in both expe 

 ditions, whose names appear in other paragraphs. Their contributions 

 were not primarily intellectual, yet were of a kind and amount to be 

 forever remembered among men who have worked and hungered and 

 thirsted and stood guard together. The deepest debt connected with 

 the field work is to the now venerable but ever vigorous pioneer, 

 Senor Pascual Encinas; aud no small part of this debt goes over to his 

 estimable spouse, Seuora Anita Encinas, who twice traversed the long 

 road from Hermosillo to Costa Rica in the interest of the 189.5 expedition. 



The scientific results of the researches have been enriched by invalu- 

 able contributions from Director Powell's store of ethnologic knowledge, 

 and by suggestions from Messrs Frank Hamilton Cashing, F. W. 

 Hodge, James Mooney, and otlier collaborators in the Bureau of 

 American Ethnology. The qualities of the colored illustrations are 

 due largely to the artistic skill of Mr Wells M. Sawyer, by whom they 

 were designed, and of Mr DeLancey Gill, by whom the proofs were 

 revised. The Spanish translations are due chiefly to Colonel F. F. 



