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CHAPTER XXX. 
THE COCO-MARICOPA AND THE PIMO INDIANS. 
Visit from the Coco-Maricopa Indians—Camp removed to the banks of the 
Gila—The river dr y—No grass—War party—Return to our first camp 
—Traffic with these Indians—Further accounts of the Oatman family 
—Francisco the Maricopa interpreter—Feeding the tribe—Visit from 
the Pimos—Religious notions of these tribes—Their manners and cus- 
toms—Agriculture—Art of spinning and weaving—Manufactures | of 
cotton—Pottery—Basket-work—Dress—Their attempts at collecting 
zoological specimens—Villages—Houses and mode of building—Store- 
houses—Horses and cattle. 
In the afternoon our camp was filled with the ee 
Maricopa Indians, who had discovered us from some 
of their look-outs, They all manifested a friendly dis- 
position, and seemed very glad to meet among us so 
many of their old acquaintances, several of the party 
having spent some days among them while engaged 
in surveying the river. The most active and important 
man among them was a chief named Francisco Dakey. 
€ had been in various parts of Mexico and California, 
spoke Spanish fluently, and acted as our interpreter. 
There were three or four others who had lived for 
some time at Tucson, where they had picked up suffi- 
cient Spanish to ‘indice themselves underst 
