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civilized Indians of Mexico and the savage tribes of the 
wilderness, than between the latter and the civilized whites. 
Even the Pimas, who dwell on the Gila, and form a 
valiant vanguard of old Mexican civilization against the 
Apaches and other plundering tribes of the north and east, 
speak of the latter in the same terms as civilized people 
speak of barbarians. " They are savages who do not 
pursue agriculture." The antagonism, consequently, is 
not one of race, but of mode of life, — the same which 
existed between the civilized States of the old Anahuac 
and the surrounding savages. I shall hereafter revert to 
this subject when speaking of the Apaches. 
These Kiowas were likewise on their way eastward, on 
an expedition to hunt buffaloes ; they eagerly enquired all 
particulars relative to the hunting-grounds in the east. 
They had quite as strong an enmity to the Pawnees as the 
Comanches, but seemed to be less afraid of them. They 
expressed the same hostility to the Mexican Apaches, 
whom they mentioned only with abuse. 
We met, a few days afterwards, on the other side of the 
river, a great chieftain of the eastern tribe of the Apaches, 
in another troop of Kiowas, with whom he seemed to be 
concerting a pillaging foray. Single tribes of the Apaches, 
I heard, live as far east as this district — a fact apparently 
not generally known. 
Neither the Comanches nor the Kiowas who visited us 
accepted brandy ; but they drank coffee and tea immode- 
rately, very much sweetened. They eat sugar in large 
quantities. Our guests were very suspicious; and we 
were obliged to partake in their presence of everything we 
offerea them, before they touched it. The old Comanche, 
with his gilt epaulettes, even smoked our tobacco with 
hesitation, and asked whether there might not be some- 
