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210 NEW TRACKS IN NOETH AMERICA 



watered by acequias from the Santa Cruz River. 

 Papagos and Pimas of the present day. 



X It is usual for all the principal Indian chiefs of the Gila and Colorado, as 

 weU as those of Zuni, to wear blue stones pendent from the nose. 



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Pintados carried certain sick folk to see Mm, tliat he miglit 

 heal them, and the invalids sought to tonch his garments for 

 that purpose. 



He continued his journey five days, always finding in- j|j 

 habited places, great hospitality, and many " turquoises " and ^^ 

 ox-hides; He then understood that after two days' journey ^^ 

 he would find a desert where there was no food. Before he i 

 reached this desert, he arrived at a very pleasant town, hy 

 reason of great stores of water conveyed thither to water the 

 same.* Here he met with many people, both men and 

 women, clothed in cotton, and some covered with ox-hides, ^^ 

 * ' which generally they take for better apparel than that of ^^ 

 cotton." t "All the people of this village," he states, "go ^ 

 in caconados — that is to say, with turquoises hanging at their | 

 nostril and ears, which turquoises they call caconaJ^t U, 



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The "lord of this village" and others visited him, "ap- 

 parelled in cotton," " in caconados," and each with a collar of 

 turquoises about his neck. They gave him conies, quails, 

 maize, and nuts of pine trees, and offered turquoises, dressed 

 ox -hides, and fair vessels to di'iiik in, which he declined. 

 They informed him that in Totonteac was a great quantity 

 of woollen cloth, such as he himself wore, made from the 

 fleeces of wild beasts. These beasts they told him were about 

 the same size as two spaniels which Stephen carried with 

 him. 



The next day he entered the desert, and when he was to 

 dine, he found bowers made and victuals in abundance by a t 



* This was probably St, Xavier del Bac, situated in a rich and fertile valley, 1^ 



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