i8S CAVE AND CUFF DWELLERS. 
dozen determined men inside this cliff 
dwelling ought to have kept away an 
army corps not furnished with artillery, 
although I doubt if the occupants hold 
these caves on account of their defensive 
qualities, but rather for their convenience 
as places of habitation, needing but little 
work to make them subserve their rude 
and simple wants. My Mexican guide 
said they would only fly if we visited 
them, leaving a little parched corn, a 
rough metate or stone for grinding it, an 
unburned olla to hold their water, and 
some skins, and, perchance, worn-out 
native blankets for bedding ; so I desisted 
from such a useless trip as getting over 
to their eyrie to inspect it. 
About three months before my first 
expedition into Mexico, I saw a notice 
going the rounds of the press that living 
