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euges nat ~~ between their present village and the mouth of the- 
Gila a 
ies are taller and more athletic than the Pimos, and what. 
struck me as very remarkable, the men had generally aquiline noses, . 
whilst those of the women were retroussérs 
‘They occupy thatched cottages, thirty or forty feet in diameter, 
made of the twigs of cotton wood trees, interwoven with the straw 
of wheat, corn stalks, and cane. ; 
Cotton, wheat, maize, beans, pumpkins, and watermelons are the 
—~ agricultural products of these people. Their fields are laid 
in squares, and watered, by the Zequias, from the Gila river. 
Their implements of husbandry are the wooden plough, the harrow,. 
and the cast-steel axe, (procured probably from Sonora.) They 
have but few cattle, and not many horses. I observed, domestica- 
ted among them, ducks, Rasa and pigs. They had many or- 
naments of sea-shells, showing, in my opinion, their recent migra- 
tion from the gulf. From the character given of them by Carson, 
when he saw them in 1826, although they were then an agricultural 
people, I should think they had learned much by their proximity 
to their neighbors, the Pimos, whom they acknowledge as politi- 
cally their superiors, and with whom they live on terms of inti- 
mate and cordial friendship. 
The Marricopas impressed me as a more sprightly race than the 
Pimos; the interpreters of the Pimos were all natives of the Mar- 
ricopas band. 
The dress of both nations or bands was the same. That of the 
men a breech cloth and a cotton serape of Zdomestic manufacture; 
that of the women the same kind of serape pinned around the waist. 
and falling below the knees, leaving the breast and arms bare. 
Both nations cherished an aversion to war, and a profound at-- 
tachment to all the peaceful pursuits of life. This predilection 
arose from no incapaciiy for war, for they were at all times able 
and willing to keep the Apaches, whose hands are raised against 
all other people, at a respectful distance,and prevent depredations 
by those mountain robbers, who hold Chihuahua, Sonora, and a 
part of Durango in a condition approaching almost to tributary 
provinces. 
They have a high regard for morality, and punish transgressions. 
more by public opinion than by fines or corporeal punishments. 
ee il is unknown amongst them, and the crime of adultery,. 
pun with such fearful penalties amongst Indian nations gener- 
ally, is here almost unknown, and is punished by the contempt of 
the relatives and associates.of the guilty partie 
The — we met between the Del Norte aia the Pimos set-- 
é kek: iobebite all the country north and south of the Gila, and both ~ 
sides of = Del Norte, about the parallel of the Jornada and Dead 
— Man’s lak 
They h have no fixed habits, and the only vestiges of their abodes 
ae which We saw. were temporary sheds, a few feet high, made of the. 
