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CA VE AND CLIFF D WELLERS. 
upon their southern brothers that they 
could resist further aggression, and there¬ 
fore give successful battle to their old 
foe, as we know they have been able to 
do recently when the Apaches were per¬ 
forming such destructive work in this part 
of the country. 
It is a well-known fact in archaeology 
that a badly defeated people, driven from 
their country by a superior force of num¬ 
bers, and occupying a new and less desir¬ 
able tract, will generally reproduce their 
habitations, implements of the chase, and 
all other things which they may be called 
upon to construct in a much less perfect 
manner than when in their own country ; 
and I found the cave and cliff dwellings 
of the wild Tarahumaris in the Sierra 
Madre Mountains to be in general less 
perfect than the cliff dwellings far to the 
