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Secondj that the high standard of morality, which has ever 

 heen remarkable amongst the Pimas and their neighhourSj the 

 Pueblo Indians^ should not be broken down by any close 

 intercourse with white men and their fire-water. 



A word or two now about the Papagos. The Papago country 

 is large in extent, but for the most part a complete desert. It 

 comprises all the country south of the Eio Gila^ which lies 

 between the head of the Gulf of California and that extensive 

 Cordillera of wliich the Sierra Catarina forms the most westerly 

 range, and extends for some fifty to a hundred miles into Sonora. 

 All over this tract, wherever there happens to be a stream, a 

 Bprlng, or a little marsh anions the baiTen rock hills which 



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tlu'iist their peaks above tlie parclied and friable grouiidj or 

 any spot favourably suited for tank iiTigation, there you are 

 very hkely to find a little colony of Papagos, lining, if at 

 home, in huts similar in all respects to those of the Pimas. I 

 have been through their desolate country, and' visited many 

 of thou' villages, and I feel convinced that the hard struggle 

 they have ahvay s had with nature to support life in such a 

 I'egion, has done much to develop the energy and manliness 

 of character peculiar to the tribe. As a race, they are the 

 finest specimens of man, pliysically^ I have ever seen. On one 

 occasion I met five of them at a ranche, and not one of the 

 party measured less than six feet two inches. If they were 

 i; not so very dark in complexion, their features would be 

 pleasing, for they have the steady, intelligent eye, and 



straightforward manners of their more northern brethren, the 

 I^imas. 



The most interesting point in connection with them, 

 liowever, is their mode of life. Lilie the Yaqui Indians 

 of Southern Sonora, they very willingly leave their homes 

 ^t certain seasons to gain a Livelihood elsewhere. They 





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