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CAVE A/VE CLIFF DWELLERS. 
strength, and we would have enough to 
write a huge book upon, giving as start¬ 
ling developments as one could probably 
make from the interior of some wholly 
unknown continent—in fact more curi¬ 
ous ; for the public is somewhat prepared 
for such a story by the large number of 
old deserted cliff dwellings found in Ari¬ 
zona and New Mexico, which have often 
been assigned to a people older than the 
ruins of the Toltec or Aztec races. That 
there is some relation between these old 
cliff dwellers and the new ones I think 
more than likely; and I believe that 
most writers who have seen both, o: 
rather the ruins of the former and much 
of the life of the latter, as I have, would 
agree with me in this view. 
It is pretty clearly settled that the 
Apaches are Athabascans, and came from 
