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CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER XXVIII. 
FORT YUMA AND THE ADJACENT COUNTRY. 
Crossing of the Colorado continued—Description of Fort Yuma—The Colo- 
rado and Gila rivers—The adjacent country—Rich alluvial bottoms— 
Facility of irrigation—Ruuins of the old Spanish Missions—Difficulty of 
supplying Fort Yuma—Plan for surveying the head waters of the Gulf 
of California—Frustrated by Colonel Graham—Discovery of the Colo- 
rado in 1540 by Alarchon—Later voyages—Difficulties in navigating 
the Colorado—Attempt of a-steamer to ascend the river—Its velocity 
and height—Fort Defiance—Massacre of Dr. Langdon and his party by 
the Yumas—Indians of the Colorado—Early tribes not identified—The 
Yumas—Cocopas—Mohavis—Extent of Alarchon’s voyage in 1542— 
Fathers Kino, Font,:and Garces..:.: 2.0295. . 6 
CHAPTER XXIX. 
FORT YUMA TO THE COCO-MARICOPA VILLAGES. 
Leave Fort Yuma—Absence of grass along the Gila—Petahaya or Giant 
Cereus—Gila trout—Meet the surveying party—Inscribed rocks—Kx- 
cessive heat—Night marches—Wagons found—How caches are made— 
Particulars of the murder of Mr. Oatman and his wife—Basin of the 
Gila—More sculptured rocks—Cross the Jornada—Great bend of the 
river—Another desert—Toilsome mareh—Reach the Coco-Maricopa 
villages. « . . 7 
CHAPTER XXX. 
THE OOCO-MARICOPA AND THE PIMO INDIANS, 
Visit from the Coco-Maricopa Indians—Camp removed to the banks of the 
Gila—The river dry, and no grass—War party—Return to our first 
camp—Traffic with these Indians—Farther accounts of the Oatman 
family—Francisco, the Maricopa interpreter—Feeding the tribe—Visit 
from the Pimos—-Religious notions of these tribes—Their manners and 
eustoms—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. ....... 
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