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the far north ; and it seems not unlikely 
that they drove southward or extermi¬ 
nated the northern cliff dwellers, leaving 
only these here as representatives, al¬ 
though numerous beyond belief, of a most 
curious race generally supposed to be ex¬ 
tinct. The Pueblo Indians, of the same 
locality, by living in larger communities 
and stronger abodes were better able to 
resist these Indian Northmen, and conse¬ 
quently some of their towns still exist; 
but the old cliff dwellers, like the new 
ones, could in many cases be cut off from 
water by a persistent and aggressive 
enemy, such as the Apaches must have 
been then, when just fresh from their 
northern excursion. It is still more prob¬ 
able, however, that they drove them 
southward until the retreating cliff dwell¬ 
ers became so powerful by being massed 
