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The first of these tribes is now quite harmless, and as its 

 members are too few and cowardly to hold thcii- ovm. against 

 the othel- tribes, they willingly submit to being fed and 

 taken care of at the expense of the government. The second 

 tribe was formerly a very warlike one, and it is chiefly owing 

 to its ravages that the fertile valley of the Eio Grande, from 

 Sail Antonio, north of Fort Craig, to La Mesilla, a distance 

 of over one hundred miles, is now an uninhabited waste. 

 War, disease, and scarcity of food have of late years so 

 thiimed their ranks, that the government succeeded a short 

 tmie ago in collecting them together and placing them on 

 the Bosque reservation with the IS'avajos. As these tribes 

 were sworn enemies, they did not long live together, for on 

 the night of T^ovomber 3rd, 18C6, the Apaches deserted, and 

 liave since that time been committing depredations on the 

 government stock, and murdering and plundering the settlers 

 so far north as Los Yegas and Galistro. We heard much of 

 tbeir ravages while passing through that district. 



AH the Mogollon bands are still at large. They mostly 

 ^•dhit the vast region formed of lofty table-lands and moim- 

 tain ranges in which the head-waters of the Eio Gila rise ; 

 and from these fastnesses, still unexplored, they have fur 

 ages been making raids upon their more civilised neighboui-s 

 on all sides of them. 



Some of the depredations of the Miembres Apaches, 

 ^der theii- chief. Mangos Colorados, will be found in 

 tlie second chapter of vol. ii. 



A very eliaracteristic tragedy was perpetrated at Fort 

 ^owie while I was there, by Cachees' band of Chi-ri-ca-tui 

 Apaches. This occurrence is related also in the second 

 volume, chap. iii. 



It is only necessary liere to say a few words about the 



