35 ° CAVE AND CLIFF DWELLERS. 
civilized and semi-civilized brought their 
children to be christened, and they again 
induced many of the wilder Indians of 
the cliffs and caves to join them. In this 
way the priests reach the wilder ones, and 
sometimes conversions are made among 
them. This is their only method of 
approaching the uncivilized natives, 
through the medium of those not quite so 
wild, who allow them to visit their homes 
in the cliffs and crags and hold a limited 
intercourse. From the steep cliffs above 
the resort, the wild Tarahumaris can look 
down on the strange doings of their more 
civilized brothers in the little valley be¬ 
low. This they told us was often done, 
but the instances were quite rare in which 
the very wild ones had been coaxed down 
from the crags above. 
I have been asked what chance a mis- 
