. 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 . fhorses among them, which with the cattle are left tograze near the villages during the day, and at nightare brought into the corrals, or yards, for safety. The only weapon used by these tribes is the bowand arrow. The short club of the Yumas and thelong lance of the Apaches I never saw among constant use of this weapon has rendered themexcellent marksmen. Even the boys
. 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 . fhorses among them, which with the cattle are left tograze near the villages during the day, and at nightare brought into the corrals, or yards, for safety. The only weapon used by these tribes is the bowand arrow. The short club of the Yumas and thelong lance of the Apaches I never saw among constant use of this weapon has rendered themexcellent marksmen. Even the boys are very ex-pert in the use of it. I have seen boys of ten ortwelve years of age, strike a cent three times out offive at a distance of fifteen yards. It is quite commonfor them to shoot doves with their arrows, and to bringin half a dozen of these birds after a ramble among thecotton-woods. It is a favorite amusement with bothmen and boys to try their skill at hitting the petahaya,which presents a fine object on the plain. Numbers 238 THE COCO-MARICOPA AND THE PIMO INDIANS. often collect for this purpose; and in crossing thegreat plateau, where these plants abound, it is commonto see them pierced with
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