1&2 CAVE AND CUFF DWELLERS. 
this peculiarity that has made it so hard 
to understand or learn anything about 
them, and this too in a land where so 
little interest is taken in gaining knowl¬ 
edge of the subject. 
In my wanderings through this portion 
of the Sierra Madres (and right here I 
might state that on some Mexican maps 
this portion of the great range is occasion¬ 
ally labeled as the Sierra de Tarahumari, 
about the only place we ran across the 
name) I was more fortunate in seeing a 
large number of them engaged in more 
nearly all the labors and duties they are 
known to follow than is usually the case : 
the civilized Tarahumari, living in rough 
stone and adobe houses, with brush 
fences around his cultivated fields ; and 
the most savage of the race, acknowl¬ 
edging none of the Mexican laws or 
