A CONJECTURE—THE MILI. CREEK INDIANS. 277 
had been so worn by being loaded with gravel that it was as thin as paper 
at the muzzle. It was not known how they could have obtained it, unless 
they had brought it with them from the Atlantic States; and it was Major 
Reading’s conjecture that they were the descendants of the remnants of 
King Philip’s tribe, of New England. I know not if this story is of 
any importance. Pwiessi knew nothing whatever concerning it, but his 
information was very limited on all subjects. The one crucial test would 
be that of language. I have at hand nothing from which I can obtain a 
vocabulary of King Philip’s nation. The Nozi numerals are very peculiar 
in their formation, unlike anything I have found in California. For the 
benefit of anybody who may have the means of making a comparision, I 
subjoin them: 
One. pai-ki-mo’-na. Six. pur-han-mo’-na. 
Two. o-mich-i-mo’-na. Seven. | chu-mi-man-mo’-na. 
Three. | pul-mich-i-mo’-na. | Eight. | taum-han-mo’-na. 
Four. | tau-mi-mo’-na. Nine. | paitsch-o-ma-ta’-na. 
Five. chi-man-mo’-na. Ten. hakh-hen-mo’-na. 
THE KOM’-BO. 
In writing of this tribe, | am compelled for once to forego the name 
employed by themselves. It is not known to any man living save them- 
selves, and probably it will not be until the grave gives up its dead. The 
above is the name given to them by their neighbors of Indian Valley, a 
tribe of the Maidu Nation. 
If the Nozi are a peculiar people, these are extraordinary; if the Nozi 
appear to be foreign to California, these are doubly foreign. They seem 
likely to present a spectacle which is without a parallel in human history— 
that of a barbaric race resisting civilization with arms in their hands, to the 
last man, and the last squaw, and the last pappoose. They were once a nu- 
merous and thrifty tribe. Now there are only five of them left—two men, 
two women, and a child. No human eye ever beholds them, except now 
and then some lonely hunter, perhaps, prowling and crouching for days over 
the voleanic wastes and scraggy forests which they inhabit. Just at night- 
