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of dry wood near the door, which they continue till the tem¬ 
perature is raised as high as they can bear it, when they fall 
to scraping themselves violently with shells and pieces of 
* sharp wood; and at length when the heat is no longer sup¬ 
portable, leave the oven and plunge into the water. These 
processes are repeated till the patient is restored or dead. 
Yutas or Utaws. —The tribes of Indians called the Utaws 
or Youtas, and the Arrapahoes or Navajos, inhabit the country 
lying between the Lake Timpanigos and Santa Fe. The 
Utaws range between Latitudes 35° and 42° N., and the 
Meridians 29° and 37° W. Longitude of Washington. The 
legitimate country of the Arrapahoes lies between 36° and 
42° N., and between Meridians 35° and 37° W. Longitude of 
Washington, the Jila being their southern and the Sheetska- 
dee a part of their eastern boundary. 
“ The great Yutas tribe,” says my friend Doctor Lyman, 
w is divided into two families which are contradistinguished by 
the names of their respective head-quarters ; the Taos Yutas, 
so called, because their principal camp is pitched in Taos 
mountains, seventy miles north of Santa Fe ; and the Timpa¬ 
nigos Yutas, who hold their great camp near the Timpanigos 
lake.” These two families speak the same language, have 
the same manners and customs, and indulge in the same bitter 
hatred towards each other. A few years ago they were one 
people; but lately an old feud between some of the principal 
chiefs resulted in a dismemberment. The Timpanigos Yutas 
are a noble race, very friendly to Americans; and brave and 
hospitable. They look upon their brethren of the Taos moun¬ 
tains with contempt on account of their thieving propensities, 
and their treachery in robbing and often murdering the soli¬ 
tary wanderer who may chance to come into their country. 
The river San Juan is the boundary between these two bran¬ 
ches of the Yutas, across which they seldom pass. Each of 
these tribes numbers about ten thousand souls. They subsist 
chiefly by the chase; but cultivate a little maize.” 
