. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . ude 38° north to about the 30th parallel. Beyondthis they have no fixed habitations, though they rangeabout two degrees farther south in their predatoryincursions in the States of Chihuahua and Sonora. Onthe Colorado River of California are many tribes onlyknown by name ; but whether they are allied to theApache nation or to some of the California families isnot known. The great
. Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua : connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, during the years 1850, '51, '52, and '53 . ude 38° north to about the 30th parallel. Beyondthis they have no fixed habitations, though they rangeabout two degrees farther south in their predatoryincursions in the States of Chihuahua and Sonora. Onthe Colorado River of California are many tribes onlyknown by name ; but whether they are allied to theApache nation or to some of the California families isnot known. The great Navajo (pronounced Navaho)tribe, the most populous of any west of the RockyMountains, in the district named, belongs to theApache family ; and I have no doubt that when anexamination is made of the languages and other meansof comparison, tribes still further to the north will befound to belong to the same stock. In fact, from 326 INCIDENTS AT THE analogies already selected, such has been found to bethe case.* The Apaches with which we had intercourse mustrank below the Indian tribes east of the Rocky Moun-tains, dwelling on the tributaries of the Mississippiand Missouri Rivers. They are without that dignified. Group of Apaches. bearing, and those noble traits of character, whichcharacterize the latter; and as they perform no labor, * In an essay read before the American Ethnological Society bymy friend, Professor Wm, W. Turner, he has shown that a close ana-logy exists between the languages of the Apaches and the Athapascans,a tribe on the confines of the Polar Sea. COPPER MINES. 327 not even that of hunting, their physical developmentsare greatly inferior. Mangus Colorado, and a fewother prominent chiefs, who live pretty well, and havethe lions share of their plunder, are rather good look-ing ; and a finer set of children than those of Mangus,of Dalgadito, and Ponce, are not often seen. Butbeyond these few exceptions, the Apaches are an ill-formed, emaciated, and miserable lo
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