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causes that he was to come in the future to rule over them, they 
would be likely to have a remembrance in some legend, but none 
of the Indians living in the section under consideration seem to 
know anything themselves regarding Montezuma. We are also 
told by historians that the Indians mount their house tops in the 
mornings and turn towards the east and look for Montezuma ; 
this I have never seen, though I have visited several of their 
towns. In questioning the oldest, who are the most reliable, re- 
garding Montezuma, in every instance I have been told that 
Montezuma was a Spanish not an Indian god; they knew noth- 
ing of him except what the Spaniards taught them. Among the 
Daigano Indians of Hot Springs, California, are two that remem- 
bered the first missionaries that came among them. They were 
then about half grown, and remembered well the events of that 
period, though they are now very old. Among the many ques- 
tions I asked them was the following: What was your mode 
of burial before the Spaniards came among you? They answered, 
** We burnt our dead.” Several others of the same. place said the 
same thing. To the question, Do you know anything of Mon- 
tezuma ? the oldest two, as also several others, answered, * Not 
of ourselves, but the Spaniards told us abouthim. He is a Span- 
ish god.” On visiting a band of the same Indians living on the 
border of Lower California, and having with me a Spaniard as in- 
terpreter, on entering a house the first thing that he say was a 
doll made of clay (Indian mothers make them for their children 
and burn them as they do earthern ware). He cried out, “ There 
is Montezuma, the Indian’s god.” At this a venerable man rose 
up, and with anger in his face said, “ No Indian god; Montezuma 
is Spanish god.” On my questioning several of both sexes upon 
the same subject, all asserted that Montezuma was a Spanish and 
not an Indian god. Among the mission churches, rendered as 
attractive as possible to please the Indians, many strange cus- 
toms and ceremonies crept into the form of worship. A special 
saint was created for the Indian’s benefit, to watch over him. If 
he has benefited by all the church has done for him, then retro- 
gression must have a new meaning. The influence of the church 
and the extensive system of intermarriage by the Spaniards have 
so changed both divisions of the race held under their dominion, 
that we have an amalgamated variety different from both and 
very inferior to either, especially to the Toltecs. | 
As to where the Indians came from that have in former diyo 
and do now live in the country acquired from Mexico I will not 
