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Some have long strings of sea-shells or parts of shells, 
which are highly prized. I tried to buy some of them; 
but the only man at: all disposed to sell asked me five 
dollars or a pair of blankets for a few strings, a price 
so extravagant that I declined to make the purchase. 
The women carry their infants in cradles similar to 
those of other Indians. I have seen them in camp 
with a basket of green corn on their heads, and on the 
top of this the cradle and child. When it gets to be 
about a year old, it is carried astride on the hip, the 
mother holding one arm around its body. Although 
the men and boys go naked, I never saw a girl, how- 
ever young, without clothes around its hips similar to — 
those worn by the women. 
The Indians were much amused by Dr. Webb’s col- 
lection of insects, reptiles, and small mammalia, which, 
were preserved in bottles or hanging about our tent. 
I told the boys to go out and collect for us any curious 
insects, lizards, or snakes they could find, and that I 
would reward them for so doing. Instead of letting 
the boys go, the men, in the belief that they would be 
well rewarded, went themselves, and in a few hours 
came very earnestly to my tent with a few grasshop- 
pers and crickets. Although utterly valueless, as con- 
taining nothing new, yet Dr. Webb graciously re- 
ceived them, as an encouragement to prosecute their 
zoological researches further, at the same time inform- 
ing his new recruits that lizards and homed frogs, 
Which abound on the plateau, would be most accept- 
able. They now set off again, and we yoped some- 
thing better from this second effort. About an hour 
after, some half-a-dozen sturdy fellows marched to- 
