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In the houses were stowed watermelons, pumpkins, beans, mes 
When dissolved in, water, it affords a delicious beverage, it quenches 
thirst, and is very nutritious. Their mo asses, put up in large 
jars, hermetically sealed, of which they had quantities, is exppessed 
turned sole upwards; between her big toe and the nex Ww 
spindle about 18 inches long, with a single fly of four or six tee f 
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end was drawn a coarse cotton thread. This was their spinning 
jenny. Led on by this primitive display, I asked for their loom 
by pointing to the thread and then to the blanket girded about the 
woman’s loins. A fellow stretched in the dust sunning himself, 
Tose up leisurely and untied a bundle which I had supposed to be 
a bow and arrow. This little package, with four stakes in the 
ground, was the loom. He stretched his cloth and commenced the . 
process of weavin 
quias of the Pimos for irrigation; but their ditches are larger than 
is necessary for this purpose, and the water which is not used re- 
turns to the bed'of the river with little apparent diminution in its 
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Looking from our camp horth, 30 west, you. see a great plain - 
With mountains rising in the distance on each side. This prospect 
had induced some travellers to venture from here ina dire t ine to 
