THE ^NATURALISTS’ COMPAKIOK 
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Five Car Loads of Eelios. 
Col. Stevenson, of the Bureau of 
Ethnology, Washington, who has 
recently spent several months in the 
west, has brought back the largest 
and most diverse collection of ob¬ 
jects illustrating the ^home life, in¬ 
dustries and religious customs of the 
Pueblo Indians ever made. In ad¬ 
dition to the articles in this collec¬ 
tion (which amount to five carloads, 
and consist of pottery ,wollen fabrics, 
weapons and stone implements), 
photographs and colored sketches 
were secured in great number illus¬ 
trating the dances,altar scenes^games 
and burial customs of the Pueblos. 
Many curious cave shrines never 
before visited by white men were 
explored, places to which for centu¬ 
ries the Zunis have been in the habit 
of making their annual pilgrimages 
with great ceremony to deposit idols, 
plume sticks and thu skulls and bones 
of sacred animals. A pack train 
party visited, under the guidance oi 
Zunian priests, a curious salt lake, 
seventy-five miles south of the Pue¬ 
blo, whence the supply ot salt used 
by the tribe is obtained, and from 
this point the travellers rode 150 
miles west to a lake where, accord¬ 
ing to Zunian belief, the departed 
spirits of the Pueblos are all trans¬ 
ported, To the later place guides 
could not be induced to go, though 
they pointed it out from a distance. 
The lake, which is but a few hun¬ 
dred yards in diameter, is surround¬ 
ed by curious conical hills, formed 
by the deposit of matter from in¬ 
numerable springs. The springs 
are now dry, except such as are be¬ 
neath the surface of the water, but 
some of the cones have open 
caverns intp which one can penetrate 
by covered way two or three hun¬ 
dred feet,—R ew York Herald. 
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mounted sabre or sword. 
WHITE DEER in the ADIEOH- 
DAOKS, 
JOHNSTOWN LETTER to th* ALBANY JOURNAL. 
An old guide from the lake Pleas¬ 
ant country reached here this morn¬ 
ing. He reports that during tlie 
past few days three white deer have 
been captured alive in that section. 
Two of these, a large doe and fawn, 
were extracted from the deep snow, 
near Piseco lake, by William Court¬ 
ney, an old huntsman of the vicinity, 
Tne other animal, an adult speci¬ 
men, was captured in tue same 
manner on the following day, by a 
brother of Courtney, The fawn 
has since died, but the other two are 
doing well. They are on exhibition, 
and awaken considerable interest on 
the part of the guides and hunters, 
who claim they are the only white 
deer ever known in that country. 
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