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pumpkins, onionSj cliili Colorado (red pepper), &c. ; they o^vn 

 a small quantity of stock, homed cattle, slieep, horses, pigs, 

 mules, and poultry. They rely, howeyer, for support mainly 

 upon agricultural produce, milk, and eggs; and then- pro- 



duction is so much in excess of their requirements, that 

 they dispose annually of more than a million bushels of grain 

 to the goyemment agents, at from four to six cents a pound, 

 which, in our money, is nearly twopence. They formerly 

 cultiyated cotton, but now they find it far easier to buy the 

 few cloth goods they require than to weaye them. 



Major Emory, of the United States regular army, was, I 

 belieye, the fii-st American to yisit these people in 1846, 

 when, as Lieutenant Emory, he took charge of a military 

 reconnaissance from Fort Leayenworth (Kansas) to San 

 Diego, on the Pacific. He thus describes the scene : ' ' We 

 bad no sooner encamped, eight or nine miles from the 

 Pima yillages, than we met a Maricopa Indian looking for 

 his cattle. The frank, confident manner in which he ap- 

 proached us, was a strange contrast to that of the suspicious 

 Apaches. Some six or eight of the Pimas came up soon after 

 at full speed, to ascertain who we were and what we wanted. 

 They told us that the first trail we had seen along the river 

 was that of their people, sent to watch the moyemeuts of their 

 enemies, the Apaches. Their joy was unaffected at seeing 

 that we were Americans, and not Apaches, and word to that 

 effect was immediately sent back to the chief. Although the 

 nearest villages were nine miles distant, our camp, in three 

 hours, was filled with Pimas loaded with corn, beans, honey, 

 and water-melons, so that a brisk trade was opened at once. 

 Their mode of approach was perfectly frank and unsuspicious ; 

 many would leave their packs in our camp and be absent for 

 ^onrs, theft seemins- to be unkno^oi to them. On reaching 



