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cliff dwellers had been seen in the San 
Mateo Mountains of New Mexico, and 
that as soon as the snow melted a 
mounted party would be organized to 
pursue and capture them ; but I have 
heard nothing from it, beyond the little 
stir created at the time, and which the 
finding of any living cliff dwellers any¬ 
where would be likely to create. Yet 
here are people of that description, of 
whom the world seems to have heard 
nothing. How many there are of them, 
as I have already said, it seems hard to 
tell. We saw at least five to six hundred 
scattered around in the fastnesses of this 
grand old mountain chain, and could 
probably have trebled this if we had been 
looking for cave and cliff dwellers alone 
along and off our line of travel. Let us 
place them at only three thousand in 
