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his return from an unsuccessful expedition across the St. 
John’s river, in pursuit of his faithless wife, who had left him 
and fled over the border with her paramour. He was quite 
sad during the early part of the journey, and was constantly 
muttering something of which I frequently distinguished the 
expression, 4 Kah-che, kai-yah, mah-ru-kah,’ which, from 
hearing so often repeated, I recollected, and afterwards, when 
he became more philosophic, which was the case towards the 
latter part of the journey, I asked him to interpret for me 
(he could speak a little Spanish), and he said it meant ‘very 
bad girl.’ He disclaimed all thought of invading the country 
of his successful rival, for he had, as he said, two other beau¬ 
teous Helens, who would console him for his loss, and they 
certainly ought to do so, for he was the very beau-ideal of 
nature’s nobility.” 
Pi utes. —The northern banks of the Colorado, the region 
of Severe river, and those portions of the Timpanigos desert 
where man can find a snail to eat, are inhabited by a race of 
Indians, which I have partially described in my former book 
of travels before mentioned, under the name of Piutes. Doctor 
Lyman gives the same name differently spelled, Paiuches. 
He introduces his observations in relation to them by some 
further remarks as to the desolate character of the country 
which they inhabit. 
“ The only animal which I saw for many hundred miles 
through this country, was the hare (in one or two instances 
a stray antelope), but so wild, that we seldom could kill one 
of them. They were so densely covered with vermin, that 
nothing but utter starvation would induce one to eat them; 
they live upon the bark and tender branches of wild sage ; 
and yet this immense tract of country is inhabited by a com¬ 
paratively numerous tribe of Indians, generally known as the 
Paiuches, but by some called the Shoshonies, a name perhaps 
more properly applied to a tribe living a few degrees to the 
northward, and very much like the Paiuches in character. 
“ The Paiuches speak the same language as the Yutas, and 
