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CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS. 
especially the wild ones, would have bor¬ 
rowed it from so distant and almost never 
visited a source. 
The civilized Tarahumaris have their 
own elections, patterned after the Mexi¬ 
cans in a crude way, while the wilder 
ones have their chiefs, but whether they 
are elected or hereditary I was not able 
to ascertain ; I am inclined to think it is 
the former. 
The wildest known of the Tarahumari 
cliff and cave dwellers are probably those 
of the Barranca del Cobre, which can be 
seen from the Grand Barranca of the 
Urique, as one skirts its dizzy cliffs, being 
in fact a spur of the Grand Barranca lead¬ 
ing out to the east. There are undoubt¬ 
edly many other, but unknown, places 
where these savages dwell, if possible 
more primitive than those of the Barranca 
