CHAPTER V. 
CENTRAL CHIHUAHUA-IN THE LAND OF 
THE LIVING CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS 
-THE TARAHUMARI INDIANS, CIVILIZED 
AND SAVAGE. 
T PROPOSE to devote the greater por- 
tion of this chapter to a consideration 
of the Tarahumari Indians of Central and 
Southwestern Chihuahua, a tribe of abo¬ 
rigines that I have occasionally seen 
mentioned in works and articles on Mex¬ 
ico (especially its northern part), but of 
which I can find no detailed account any¬ 
where in the literature I possess of this 
region. The fact of my having been in 
that country for some time, seeing and 
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