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was enlisted in Chihuahua for the purpose of hunting do\yn the Apaches ; but it 

 was soon discovered that these dangerous allies found it more convenient to plunder 

 peaceful travellers, and bring their scalps to the Government for the stipulated 

 rewards. At last Indians were hurled against Indians, and the extermination 



"Fig. 34. — "Water-Carkier and Tortillas Woman. 



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of the Apaches was entrusted to their hereditary foes, the southern Comanches, 

 who roamed over the Bolson de Mapimi plains. The few survivors have 

 become shepherds, " cowboys," horse-dealers, even guards of the stations on the 

 railways that now traverse their former hunting-grounds. 



The north-east region of Mexico comprised between the Hio Bravo and Tampico, 



