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deserted villages sagging this way and that on little margins of shores, the 
stripped and rib-smashed cabins, corrugated gravel-beds, shattered turbine- 
wheels, and the hollow roaring of the river amid the gray bowlders, as if in 
a kind of querulous lament over its departed glories—long ago, the dark- 
skinned fishermen peering keenly down from their leafy booths, with spears 
ready poised; afterward, the restless, toiling bands of miners—one finds 
himself indulging in this reflection: “The gold is gone, to return no more; 
the white man wanted nothing else; the Trinity now has nothing but its 
salmon to offer; the Indian wanted nothing else; would not a tribe of 
savages be better than this utter and irreclaimable waste, even if the gold 
had never been gotten ?” 
THE PAT’-A-WE (PATCH’-A-WE). 
This is the name given by the Chimariko to the Wintiin, consequently 
they will be treated of elsewhere. Their habitat extended down the Trinity 
to the mouth of North Fork. They were not in any degree subject to the 
Hupa. 
